Blogging for writers: your blog is your key to writing every day

Do you have trouble writing every day? Many writers, both new and established, find that this is a challenge.

Usually what’s happening if you’re not writing daily is that the writer is working on something or other, and has no clear plan for the project, and doesn’t have a deadline.

Regarding planning, it’s easy to say: PLAN! and leave it at that, but planning is a hard habit to get into if you’re not writing enough. Most writers (because we’re right-brained) avoid planning until it’s forced on us by our commitments: we have so many projects we’re juggling that they’d be impossible to manage without planning.

Then, after a while, planning becomes a habit, and then we want to slap ourselves for not forming the planning habit earlier, because it makes life so much easier.

Regarding deadlines, here’s a one word solution: DECIDE on a deadline. Just decide on a day that’s the ultimate cut-off point for the project. If the project is not done on that day, too bad — you’re going on to something else. Everything you write needs a deadline, and even if the deadline’s imposed on you externally, you should decide on your own deadline, at least three days earlier.

Want to form a daily writing habit? Blog!

If you’re not writing every day, here’s your solution: blog.

Just start a blog on any topic you choose, for preference, one you’re passionate about. Then create a plan for the blog — a simple one.

Here’s an example of a simple plan. You will:

* Write one short post a day (under 200 words)

* Write one long post each Saturday (500 to 800 words)

A simple plan like this gets you writing, and keeps you writing. What you’re writing isn’t as important as the fact that you’re developing a writing habit of writing every day. Quite soon, you’ll become jumpy and irritable if you don’t write daily.

Shortly after that you’ll develop the habit of planning everything you write, and setting your own deadlines, because the deadlines assure you that no matter how irritating, boring, or anxiety-making a project is, on your deadline, ready or not, the project ENDS.

Try blogging. It can really make all the difference in your writing life. Every writer to whom I’ve recommended blogging, and actually did it, always says something like: “I wish I’d started blogging years ago.”

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