How To Create Your Routine To Write Online Daily
When you are busy all day long
Discipline allows magic.
That’s the way you get good grades in school, the way you get your degree at university and the way you keep up with your life.
You probably haven’t deeply considered it and also probably haven’t shaped it the way you wanted to, but you have a routine right now.
You wake up → do something → eat (obviously) → do something else → eat → brush your teeth & take a shower → sleep → again.
By the way, I never understood the logic of people who shower in the morning instead of evening. Like what’s that? You go all day in all sorts of places, work, public transportation etc…you sweat, you get pollution on your skin and after all that you go to bed.
Get used to it, I like to put some random thoughts out there so you can read them (that’s the whole point of writing by the way, telling people your thoughts).
So, let’s get back to your writing routine.
It took me 7 months of being a side-writer to realise I needed a routine, and even after realizing it, I didn’t get my routine right away. It took me some time to craft it, test it and get used to it.
You see when you write online, you’ve got only 1-2 hours a day, depending on how much free time you have.
But once I got my writing routine, my income tripled and I never skipped a day of writing unless it was intentional.
To be a writer is to have an idea constantly growing in your mind, and then carefully shape it into words every day.
Here’s how to do it.
Step 1: Find The Sweet-Spots
Most people tell me they don’t have time, and then, in a couple of messages, I show them that they’ve got 2-4 hours of free time every single day (without sacrificing their relationships, friends etc..)
So, the first step is to make an audit of your week.
Write down hour-by-hour what you are doing, and check if this action is a waste of time or not.
For example, when I audited my week, I found out that I waste 2 hours daily on social media & Netflix. Well, 99% of people waste this amount of time on socials so it’s not just you and me.
Now imagine if you had your bad habits removed from your week, at least partially, how much time would you have?
About one hour on a weekday and a couple more on the weekend, am I right?
Step 2: Start Small
Don’t replace all your hours of social Media, or whatever with writing at once. It won’t work, I know it from my experience.
You have to make it gradually, by setting small goals and achieving them over time. For example :
1st week: 100 words a day.
2nd week: 300 words a day.
3rd week: 500 words a day.
4th week: 700 words a day.
700 words is the number of words in my average article. So, if you achieve this amount of writing in your 4th week, you can consider yourself lucky (or very good at creating routines).
Step 3: Headphones and timer
Even if you make it to your first writing session, you have a lot of temptation to avoid. The constant notifications from your phone or your email are the worst distraction.
You open your phone to check your mail and end up watching cat videos on Facebook.
But I found a remedy to that, headphones and a timer.
I put my phone away, set a timer and listen to some calm music. I bought a physical timer, it’s better this way so you can see it in front of your eyes decreasing.
That keeps telling your mind: every minute counts. Don’t waste it!
Step 4: Bad days
Without them, life wouldn’t be funny at all. If everything is always fine, how do you know it’s fine?
Bad days shape your life. They keep a room for wonder, for exploring.
But they are also very annoying when it comes to writing online. We all have these days when we don’t feel like doing anything, we just want to sit and read, or just sleep longer.
It’s normal, we are human, it’s our nature. That’s the way it is and you shouldn’t blame anyone for it.
Just skip the dam* day, nothing special will happen. Remember, your writing career doesn’t depend on one day, it’s the combination of months of work.
The only thing you should keep in mind is that writing after skipping a day is more complicated. The habit is partially lost…
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