Creating a daily writing habit can be an excellent way to sharpen your writing skills. It enhances your creativity and clarifies your thoughts. While it’s a bit challenging, it’s doable with constant practice.
You wonder, why bother with a writing habit when it’s a chore? The answer is simple: writing boosts creativity and often leads to more words.
When I started writing this year, I discovered it involves a lot of techniques. Yet, doing it every day has helped me master those techniques. Now, I’ve grown to the level of helping others build good writing habits.
In this article, I’ll explore writing techniques that will help you enhance your writing habit.
Enjoy the Process
As humans, we tend to give attention to the things we enjoy doing. We find time for it despite our busy schedule, it’s the same with writing. When you begin to enjoy writing, it becomes a habit. And how do you learn to enjoy writing? By creating time for it. Writing the smallest things that come to mind. Then, you realize that writing isn’t so hard. This will encourage you to write often.
Have a Purpose for Writing
Most times, our driving force is recognizing the “why”, the reason for embarking on that journey. We can use our “why” to get motivated. Even when we decide a task is hard, we can always go back to the “why”. It’s the same for writing, establish your “why”, and have a goal you want to achieve through writing.
Whys like: Do I want to build a career in writing? Do I want to be more expressive through writing? Or is it because people say writing is fun and so on. When you are able to establish these facts, they will serve as a motivation to develop a good writing habit. Most especially on days you don’t feel like writing.
Keep Practicing
You can improve your skills with continuous practice, even when you make lots of mistakes. You don’t give up; rather, you keep going back to it till you get perfect. Writing is in this category, you can only get better at writing when you write often. In doing this, you can point out your mistakes easily, and find ways to get better at writing.
Trigger Routine
Have a routine that triggers your brain to know that it’s time to write. It can be a routine of writing after drinking a cup of coffee or after going for morning walks. I dive into writing after completing my morning chores. It can be to write down a word of affirmation that guides me through the day or my to-do list. This triggers me to know that it’s time to write. These actions might seem very insignificant, but they are very helpful.
Set Realistic Word Counts
Start with fewer word counts. You can task yourself with writing 100 words each week for one month. Then, in the second month, you can increase it to 200 words and so on. By doing this, you reduce the frustrations of missed targets. You also learn to enjoy the process. It’s important to start small, then grow from there.
Conclusion
In summary, writing is fun once you get used to it and these tips listed above can help sharpen your writing skill, you don’t have to try all at once. Remember, there are many ways to form new habits. Don’t hesitate to try different techniques that works for you.