"If you’re having trouble getting your daily writing session started, begin with a warm up. Set a..."

“If you’re having trouble getting your daily writing session started, begin with a warm up. Set a timer for 30 minutes, and then focus on writing as many words as possible in that window. Give yourself permission to fumble. Don’t fix mistakes. Just write.

 

Find your rhythm, ignore your internal editor. In fact, duct tape your internal editor’s mouth shut for a half hour. Some days, all you need to fly is a good running start.”

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Courtney Alameda is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Shutter, and the forthcoming novel Pitch Dark (June 2017). A veteran bookseller and librarian, she now writes full-time and lives in Utah with her husband.

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