Some years back an old friend said he had compiled a priority list to be used as a guide to help him climb the ladder of success.
Top on the list is to make tonnes of money.
Item number two also had to do with becoming filthy rich.
But item number 3 of 4 was to write.
Nothing wrong with this priority. Only that this was one guy who never showed any inclination towards reading or writing during our college days.
Get rid of to-do lists if they don’t work for you.
Make life easier for yourself.
Just do the first thing that comes to make mind.
What do the above two words mean?
Two things.
You might have given in and slipped back into your default mode: Natural Procrastinator.
Chances are you’re still wondering why you still procrastinate WHEN YOU CAN ACTUALLY DO whatever it is that you want to do.
You start your day hoping to get your quota of writing tasks done. You had it all planned out for a productive writing day.
At the end of the day, for some reason, you don’t produce the results you’ve aimed for.
You had all the time. You had the energy. You could handle the tasks. Still nothing much to show for it.
It happens pretty much every time you sit down to work. You wonder how you can fix this loss of productivity.
The biggest mistake any content creator makes is waiting for a content idea to strike before sitting down to research and write it.
Adopt this approach and your content faucet trickles instead of gushing out.
If you’re running a content blog or if content marketing is the core of your business, you’ll have to replace this snail-pace method of content creation with a more kickass, proactive approach.
When you see writers and bloggers produce high-quality content on a consistent basis you may think they are super intelligent or geniuses.
They aren’t. They just have a behind-the-scenes, sleight of hand that enables them to stay ahead of the game.
What’s your motivation to write? Money? Fame?
What if you don’t get those? Would you go on writing?
Have you met someone who could write well but doesn’t?
The next time you meet such a person, ask her why.
Chances are she would say she has no time etcetera. That’s a lie. A white lie.
Want to know what the truth is?
Do you start writing projects as easily as turning on the tap and but don’t dare ‘close’ them?
There are various stages of the writing process where you ‘chicken out’.
Idea stage. You get an idea for a piece of writing. You jot down the idea. You know it’s a good one. One you should work on. But you don’t do anything beyond it.
You get an idea, and you expand on it. You even write a synopsis
Too much to do?
Very little time to it?
Not making progress in what you’re attempting?
Can’t see the wood for the trees in a ‘challenging’ writing project?
If so, you’re suffering from writing overwhelm.
Really? Not really.
Writing overwhelm is a Frankenstein’s Monster. You created it and now it’s getting you.
Sometimes it takes a non-writing book to open your eyes to the realities of the writing process. Realities which despite you being very much aware of, inexplicably slip out of your consciousness.
This book, Music Habits – The Mental Game of Electronic Music Production: Finish Songs Fast, Beat Procrastination and Find Your Creative Flow by Jason Timothy talks about writing music but the thinking behind the creation process is very much applicable to writing.
It’s not every writer who has the luxury of working on only one writing project at any time.
Whether you’re working on personal writing projects or work-related ones you’ll more often than not, have quite a few to juggle. Chances are you’ve started them on a sudden wave of inspiration. Over time you had difficulty coping owing to time and energy constraints.
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