2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love

I started keeping records. Every day I sat down to write, I would note the time I started, the time I stopped, how many words I wrote, and where I was writing on a spreadsheet

the first question you should be asking yourself isn’t “Is this a good book?” but "Is this really the story I want to spend my time on?"

The days when I broke 10k were the days when I was writing scenes I'd been dying to write since I planned the book.

If you are not enjoying your writing, you’re doing it wrong.

I’d spent so long blaming my bad writing days on my own imagined lack of discipline, I’d completely ignored the fact that maybe the reason I didn’t want to write was because I was writing something I didn’t like.

characters with proper agency will write their own stories. And they will do it faster, better, and more naturally than you ever could.

Name: Age: Physical Description: I like: I hate: More than anything, I want:

Every writing session after this realization, I dedicated five minutes (sometimes more, never less) and wrote out a quick description of what I was going to write that day.

Now, instead of treating bad writing days as random, unavoidable disasters to be weathered, like thunderstorms, I started treating them as red flags.