NOTE: This post is for the Letter “P” as part of the Blogging A to Z Challenge.
As a professional writer, are you so concerned about the “business” of writing these days that you seem to have lost your overall passion for writing itself?
This can happen when you feel overwhelmed by all you must to do on a regular basis to promote your writing and your writing business.
But here’s a way to rekindle your passion for writing.
Set aside just 30 minutes every day during the next week to work on something you’re most passionate about. This could be that novel you’ve put aside for a while because you’ve got too many other paying projects, or it could be that how-to book you’ve been meaning to write, or maybe it’s a short story you really, really want to write someday, yet “someday” has just never come.
Once you’ve set aside just 30 minutes for each day in the coming week, plan to write just ONE page (of this work that you’re most passionate about) each day.
Then simply show up each day in the coming week to write that ONE page. Use a kitchen timer and set it for 30 minutes each time you sit down to write your ONE page. If you finish one page BEFORE the timer goes off, keep writing, or go back and rewrite what you have already written.
You may think you’ll never finish this book or story if you write only one page at a time like this. But you’re wrong.
In a week’s time, you’ll have 7 pages. That’s longer than most short stories, so you’ll probably finish your story within a week. The next week you can go back and polish it for 30 minutes a day until it’s ready for submission. If you’re working on a book, 7 pages is probably a chapter, or most of a chapter – so a chapter a week is GREAT progress. In less than a year, you’ll have written a complete book!
A few words of caution here: Don’t spend more than 30 minutes a day on this project you’re most passionate about – even though you may be tempted to do so after a few days. If you do, chances are you won’t be able to stick with it after a while. If this happens, you’ll get frustrated and the project you’re so passionate about will go to the back burner, yet again.
So what are you waiting for? Rekindle your passion for writing. It only takes 30 minutes. You can start today.
Try it!
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