Be a lazy writer and sell

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I received an email message from a writer last week about feeling exhausted after writing. There’s no need to feel exhausted. You can relax, and write.

Quoted with permission:

I want to become a full-time writer, but at the moment, I’m working really hard for very little result. I know you say your ebook “Top 70 Writing Tips To Help You To Write More” helps you to write more, guaranteed, but I don’t think I CAN write more. I’m exhausted after writing for an hour.

Here’s part of my response, edited down for brevity:

The exhaustion you feel is stress. It’s very common. In my first few years of writing I felt as limp as a noodle after a writing session, but over the years, I’ve turned into a LAZY writer. I can write longer, and write more, but writing doesn’t stress me at all. In fact, I feel more energized after writing for a few hours, than I did before I started writing. Writing is lots of fun for me now, much more fun than anything (and I mean anything) else that I could do.

I learned to become a LAZY writer who writes a lot and sells a lot, and you can too, as soon as you learn to use all of you - both sides of your brain, and your body too, for that matter. When you use both your conscious and subconscious mind (or left and right brain) together, writing is fun and easy.

I wrote “Top 70 Writing Tips To Help You To Write More” to help other writers manage their stress, and write more. A big part of the book concerns the easy interaction of your left and right brain. Now, whether you subscribe to this particular brain theory or not is immaterial.

I just let my subconscious do most of the writing work - it’s a LOT easier that way, and much, much more fun. Your subconscious mind is very powerful. It runs you - your entire body, and some of your mind too. Although it’s not the verbal part of your brain, I believe that your right brain is more intelligent, so to speak, than your left brain, because it “sees” in wholes, rather than parts.

Relax, be lazy, and let your right brain/ subconscious/ unconscious do the work. I’ve hinted around about this in the writing blog.

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