Write Every Day: Write in 10 Easy Steps, #3
By Helena Halme
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"This book was such a wake-up call!"
"Write Every Day is a great introduction to creating & setting writing habits for new writers. Halme's style is straightforward and easy to understand. I love getting behind-the-scenes insight on how other writers write."
How many times have you heard a bestselling author say the route to success is to write every day?
In this inspiring book, the author of several bestselling titles, Helena Halme, reveals the secrets of how writers train themselves to work every day. She discusses why writing every day brings success, as well as gives you tips on how to motivate yourself to turn up to work at your writing desk every single day.
Some of the topics covered in this handy guide are:
- Why does writing every day bring you success?
- The real reason why you're not writing
- Why the more you write the more you thrive as an author
- How to turn off your inner critic
- Why making writing a daily habit is easier than you think
- How plotting your novel or planning a nonfiction title makes daily writing easier
Get this uplifting guide to writing every day and become a successful author today!
Helena Halme
Helena Halme grew up in Tampere, central Finland, and moved to the UK at the age of 22 via Stockholm and Helsinki. She spent the first ten years in Britain being a Navy Wife and working as journalist and translator for the BBC. Helena now lives in North London, loves Nordic Noir and writes Scandinavian and military fiction. Her latest novel, The Navy Wife, is a sequel to her best-selling novel, The Englishman. Helena has published two other novels, Coffee and Vodka, and The Red King of Helsinki.
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Write Every Day - Helena Halme
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INTRODUCTION
Many writing gurus and successful authors talk about how important it is to write every day. But why is it so important? Should every writer do it? I certainly think so. But let me explain why.
Why write every day?
If you want to be a writer, to make writing your profession, writing something every day is essential. It is, after all what a writer does. He or she writes. I assume since you are here, you are a writer or have the ambition to be a writer. Whether you want to write a journal, a blog, an autobiography, a novel, or a nonfiction title, you need to commit to putting down some words at some point. Writing every day makes the process of achieving the desired word count easier.
Writing every day means that you can publish more books in less time, which will make it easier for you to make a living out of your writing. I will talk about the money side of writing in the next chapter.
Writing is a craft, just like, say, woodworking. The more you practise the craft, the better at it you will become. When you commit to writing every day, you will notice that your writing becomes faster, easier and more polished. (Well, up to a point.)
Writing every day will also feed your creativity. We often believe that creativity is a well that is finite: if we dip into it too often, it will run out. In my experience, the exact opposite is true: the more we write, the more infinite the well is. There are limitations to this theory, of course. Like everything in life, you mustn’t overdo it. In Chapter 10, I talk about how you also need to take care of yourself to guard against burnout.
In this book, I will go into detail about why writing every day makes you a better writer, but I will also cover the difficulties authors face, such as the dreaded writer’s block, and how to overcome them. Furthermore, I will show you tips and tricks on how to motivate yourself to write every day. I will also tell you how my writing career (eventually) led me to a daily writing routine, and with that to publishing success.
Become a writer
If you wish to make your career as a writer, you need to sell enough books to support your lifestyle. It’s well known that if a reader falls in love with a book, they want to read more of the author’s work. Without being a mathematician, or a marketing guru, it’s clear that the more (good) books you publish, the more sales you get each day.
I found this to be true when I began my blog series back in 2009 and published my first novel in 2012. I just wish I’d taken heed of the ‘Write Every Day’ ethos back then and produced the subsequent novels a lot sooner than I did! This is the reason I want to share my own experiences, including the mistakes, of establishing a sustainable writing routine that leads to success. Writing every day enables you to produce books as quickly as possible.
That’s it.
That’s the long and short of it.
It’s ultimately your decision. Do you want to be a successful writer?
My story
I began taking writing seriously when I enrolled on an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. After my elation at being accepted on the course, I realized that I would now have to start writing regularly. Go figure! I had already completed a novel, but it had taken me years. Fair enough, I had young children at home, as well as a full-time job, so writing time came at a premium.
My writing routine consisted of bursts of activity. I might have a run of two or three weeks when I’d write more or less regularly. Alternatively, I’d write every day for a week or so. But this method had its pitfalls: every time I’d sit at my desk in front of my computer, I’d have to reread almost the entire manuscript, just to get into the story again. And then I’d begin editing instead of writing. Of course, editing is also writing, but when you are in the first draft stage, this can be a killer to both your productivity and creativity. If you had allocated, say, two hours to writing new text, editing what you’ve already written can swallow up the whole of that time. At this stage, reading and editing can also crush your creativity. I’m not saying that your first draft is never brilliant, but it is a first draft, something you will go back to and modify later. Seeing your ‘mistakes’ from previous writing sessions before you start a new one can be depressing and make you question whether you can write.
I will go deeper into my techniques for getting fresh, new words down every day later on in this book. But first, let’s go