The Practice
The Practice covers what it actually takes to keep showing up— the daily habits, mindset shifts, and overcoming self-doubt that go along with writing a novel over months or years. These posts are for motivation, building a sustainable writing routine, working through perfectionism and stuck points, and treating the writing itself — not just the finished book — as worth your care. Drawing on fifteen-plus years of coaching novelists through complete manuscripts, this is where to start if consistency, not craft, is what’s standing between you and a finished draft.
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How I Write
What I do:
I open up a blank Word document (yes, I still use Word, youngsters) and date it with today’s date. Sometimes I add the time. Then I start to journal a few thoughts and ideas or concerns, what the morning looks like.
Today, being the last day of[…]
Bless Yourself
Build Your Book Writing Practice
As you keep at it, sooner or later you’ll have a moment where you want to write. Maybe out of the blue or after a fun thing you’ll be called to the keyboard or laptop or notebook and pen.
Follow that
Small Steps
Build Your Book Writing Practice
At first it won’t seem like much. And lots of judgments will come up.
You’ll judge yourself as not good enough, think the work is poor. It doesn’t matter.
It never matters. This is a part of the process. The practice. The work.
Keep at it. Things will start coming together.
Just for[…]
Routine
After a time, it won’t be a question anymore. After some time and practice and making it to the desk every morning or day or whenever you find the right, consistent time and place for you, for your writing, it will become a routine.
This is where your body takes over.
Like a worker who wakes at[…]
Write through the Fear
Today I worry that perhaps now I don’t know how or when to put it down. Or if it makes sense to ever take a break.
And it must. Right?
There must be some days where I just need to take off and rest.
I have days where I wonder if I’m writing because of fear or because[…]
The Practice
Do you have a writing practice? You might call it a process or a habit or even a compulsion.
