Writing A Sentence Every Day

BREATHE!

I was asked to comment on writing. The most important advise I can give is in my book CHOP WOOD, CARRY WATER. I’ll go over them in the next couple of days.

Here are the five steps

1. Write a sentence every day.
2. Write 1–4 Short stories a month
3. Finish and submit those stories for publication.
4. Do not rewrite except to editorial request
5. Read 10X what you write
6. Repeat this process 100 times.

Let’s just look at the first step today.

“Write a sentence every day”

The psychology of this is very well worked out. Writers write. THAT’S WHAT THEY DO. A writer who doesn’t write any more might still be an “author”, but a writer they are not. There is a VAST difference between not-writing and writing even one sentence.

The beautiful thing about this practice is that EVERYONE has time to write one sentence. So if you cannot do it, you have clearly identified a broken link in your chain. It simply doesn’t matter how good your ideas are, your vocabulary, your technical writing skills…IF YOU DON’T WRITE.

So this is the first and most basic thing. It is the “atomic” minimum in the M.A.G.I.C. formula: Action. The daily Action you must take to stay on the path.

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