No matter what stage you are at with your project of writing a book, you need to be accomplishing something every day on that project if it is to move forward.
Your book concept might be a novel, or a non-fiction book, or a book-length collection of short stories or poems; regardless, especially in the early stages of writing, a book project is a formidable undertaking.
But if you discipline yourself to do something on your writing project every day you may be surprised how quickly the work mounts up, and before you realize it, you are well on the way to actually completing your book.
So, looking back on today, did you do any of the following?
- Write a few hundred words
- Do some research on the subject matter
- Work on your outline
- Develop down some ideas on characters
- Read something about the craft of writing
- Read some of a novel, non-fiction book, short story, or some poetry
- Read about the life of a successful writer
You don’t need to do all of these every day, but working on some facet of your book every day, combined with learning something about writing every day, will make the completion of your book easier because your will be “in the creative flow” so to speak, and simultaneously developing your writing skills and becoming a writer.
Trying to cram all the necessary work into one or two days a week is much tougher, and in the long term less effective.
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