30-Day Author: Develop a Daily Writing Habit and Write Your Book in 30 Days (or Less) (Wordslinger 1)

My decision, made long before I rolled into my driveway and made my way wearily inside, was that I would write more books. And more books. And more. Until the world was just filled with my fiction. Because that would get me closer to the mountain than ever.

Something that worked for me was imagining that where I wanted to be—an author, primarily of fiction, making good books, making good comics and supporting myself through my words – was a mountain. A distant mountain. My goal. And I knew that as long as I kept walking towards the mountain I would be all right. And when I truly was not sure what to d

I was going to be a fiction author first, and everything else second—and I’d only do what it took to reached my mountain.

So what is my why? I want to be a prolific and prosperous author of hopeful, fun, and inspiring stories.

Affirmations are a shortcut to that whole goal-writing, goal-checking process.

You cannot, under any circumstances, worry about anything beyond the one thing: Your job is to write.

By writing out a simple goal, and repeating it to yourself every day, you’re hacking your brain, getting it focused on what’s important, and ignoring what isn’t.

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Writer's block isn't hard to cure. Just write poorly. Continue to write poorly, in public, until you can write better.