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A consistent writing routine will not only improve your writing, but it will also provide the discipline you need to make writing a habit.

So how do you do that?


1. Schedule Your Writing Time
If you wait for the time to appear in your schedule, you may never reach your writing goals.
You won’t find the time. You have to make the time by carving something else out of your schedule. What you’re willing to sacrifice for writing time will determine how serious you are about this—how badly you want it. .
Schedule writing time the way you would any other appointment—and make it non-negotiable.
Whether it’s morning or evening or weekends at midnight, don’t let anything get in the way of your writing.
If you set aside two hours to write, resist answering emails, doing laundry, or checking Twitter.

2. Quantify your progress
Set yourself a word or page count goal per day.
You’ll find that hitting daily goals will make you feel like your writing dreams are achievable.
If you want to complete a first draft of your manuscript in six months, determine what that requires in words or pages per day until then.
Then reward yourself as you hit your daily goals. Celebrate even small wins.


3. Publicize it.
Tell your goal to friends, loved ones, a coworker, or a fellow writer. Allow them to hold you accountable.


4. Create a dedicated writing space
Something many writers find helpful in establishing a writing routine is creating a dedicated writing space.
Having a place that’s just for writing, a place you know you can retreat to escape the outside world and enter your own fictional one, is extremely useful when it comes to making writing a regular habit.
Your dedicated writing space can be anything from a full home office, to a desk or comfortable chair in the corner of a room. Whatever it is, it must be an area you feel comfortable in, and one in which you won’t be bothered by other people.


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So there you have it – four simple steps to help you establish that writing routine once and for all.
Writers, we’d love to hear what your daily routine is like – let us know in the comments!

Cheers to your success 📈


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