Back to Routines Mini-Challenge 3

The Back to Routines Mini-Challenge is almost over. Today we are going to talk about working the plan. Let’s review: your goal sheet is done, your desk is organized and filled with motivational writer stuff; you know what you need to get accomplished and have written it down on a calendar or chart.

Now, writer friend, is the time to work the plan.

How do you stay motivated? How do you make yourself sit down and write? Routines and will power. Lots of Zig Ziglar motivation tapes.

Until writing is such a habit that you don’t even think about it, you’ll have to force yourself to write. Until you have a contract telling you the finish line, you have to make your own. This is what separates published writers from hobbyists. Published writers (before they had a contract) pushed through even when no one was waiting for the manuscript. There is no other way (at least for most people.)

When the writing gets hard, turn off the emotions and keep going. It will get better. If you quit writing, your book will die.

Hmm, okay. On that positive note, off you go! Your characters depend on you.