Writing is Writing: Just Write Things Down

“Do it — write!” I seem to spend more time saying this to my writing students than I should. That’s one of the reasons I created the 100 Day Writing Challenge. I want you to get into the habit of doing — writing.

Writing should be a habit for any writer. You should be writing all the time. I used to say that I write 24 hours a day, and that’s not far wrong. Writing is always at the back of my mind, no matter what I happen to be doing.

I write every day — seven days a week. I can’t remember any day in the past decade or so that I haven’t written for at least an hour or two every day. It’s become a habit.

I’m sharing my writing process with you in the Challenge.

Stripped down to its basics, that process consists of:

Planning ==> Writing ==> Reviewing

Stop head-thinking and start writing

Writing is thinking — but you’re not just thinking in your head, you’re writing things down. For most people, head-thinking is a mistake, because you’re thinking from your own perspective, what you know. Head-thinking turns into worry, which burns your motivation.

You need to get beyond that, so that you can access your creativity. That happens when you write things down.

So write things down.

You write:

* Questions you have (you’ll be amazed to find that if you write down a question, ANSWERS come to you);

* Ideas;

* Answers to the questions you’ve written down (the answers only come after you’ve written down your questions).

A few years ago I was listening to a Tony Robbins seminar. One of the attendees said that he’d tried everything, but couldn’t make any more money. (It was a “create wealth” seminar for business people.)

Tony asked the man to tell him about the 20 or 30 strategies he’d used in the past six months to make more money.

The man couldn’t think of any.

So Tony relented, and asked for just ten strategies.

The man struggled, but finally said that he’d placed a few classified ads — that hadn’t worked. He’d also gone to a trade show — that hadn’t worked either.

So the man’s definition of “everything” turned out to be just two things.

If the poor guy had been in the habit of writing things down, he would have made his two strategies work for him, because just from writing things down, new ideas would have come to him.

In your Days 1 – 7 message for the 100 Day Writing Challenge, you spent a lot of time planning, and I hope, writing things down.

Several people wrote to me very pleased that they’d managed to skip ahead several days…

Those dull thuds you could hear when I read that was me, banging my head against my desk.

No skipping, please — WRITE EVERYTHING DOWN.:-)

Writing is writing. All you need to do is do is… write everything down.

Once you do, you’ll be amazed at the results. Your writing, and your life, will change.

Enrollments closing

By the way, depending on where you are in the world, enrollments should have closed (theoretically) or WILL close very, very shortly. I’m in Sydney AU, where it’s Sunday already, but I need to leave enrollments open until the entire world has rolled over to Sunday, September 26.

I’ll know I’ll get requests to enroll after closing them, but I’m sorry, the answer will be NO… we all need to be on the page — it’s the 100 Day Writing Challenge, not the 66.5 Day Writing Challenge or similar.

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