A Writer’s Worst Enemy!

“Why do I find it so hard to write?” She asks. When such a question arises, often the answer comes back as a lack of confidence, which leads to procrastination. Here are a couple of suggestions, should you have a similar query. 

1. Settle down to write and just do it. Make a deal with yourself to set emails, texts, games, social media and phone calls off-limits till you have written at least 250 words – usually one page double-spaced. And don’t edit.
 
If a lack of confidence is your nemesis, you most likely won’t like what you write. You can make a deal with yourself to edit only when you reach 500 words or 1000 words if you can hold out. Editing requires judgment. The more you write, the more likely you are to have something interesting you’ll find worthy of keeping.
 
Think of the first few hundred words as a primer, working through the cobwebs in the mind.
 
2. Another idea is to sit down to write and instead, do nothing. Hold yourself back until the words that surface begging to be captured. Then, let it roll.

Try one or both, and let me know what works!

Enjoy the process.

Jasmyne