Writer Boot Camp

I’m going to tell you a secret: if you’re going to be the writer in your dreams (the one banging away at a laptop with a book deal and billions of dollars), you need to write every day. Even if it’s just a few words. That’s what events like National Novel Writing Month are all about- just getting you to be a consistent writer. 

If you were learning, say, piano, you’d have to practice it often, right? Writing’s the same way. You can’t sit and wait for inspiration. (Inspiration is an excuse, really.) You just have to start writing something, be it stupid or unrelated to your current project. Writing prompts online can help. A good way to do this is keeping a daily journal. What better to write about than yourself? You can rant, rave, do whatever you want, just make sure you’re not one of the people who sit twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their Muse to show up and hand them a finished novel/script/short story. 

Force yourself to crank something out, and you’ll find that it helps. There are posts devoted to ways to get yourself writing in the NaNoWriMo forums. Don’t be lazy. Write daily. Practice makes perfect! (At least, as close to perfect as possible.)

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