Work on Your Writing Habit
For the most part, writers work at home and have to be very self disciplined. There is no clock to punch at the beginning and end of the work day, there is no defined work day except the one the writer sets. To that end, it's very easy for life to get in the way of writing. Life always gets in the way: The phone rings, the kids need help, there are errands to run. The worst thing a writer can do is stop writing. One day turns into three which turns into a month. Making writing a habit is one of the best things a writer can do. How do you create that habit? HG Nadel a writer explains this thoroughly here: Set Your Own Daily Goals: Writers tend to look at the writing habits of other writers and become panicked when they cannot create those same habits. Writers write differently. To set yourself up to another writer does not help your writing. For some writers, it's going to be a set time limit five days a week. Maybe for you, it's three days a week. For some writers it...