Create Writing Routines

I have a number of writing habits including writing each week
for the Writing Life.
Every morning I use Refollow to
follow 800 new people in my target market.  I've been doing this habit
for years and yes clicking my mouse 800 times is a bit boring and routine. Why
do it? Because consistent use of this tool is one of the reasons that I have a large following on
Twitter. This fact combined with the other habits I've created have gathered
a large following or platform. Follow this link to learn the details of my every day actions
on Twitter.



Every day I read and/or listen to audiobooks. As I read, I'm
learning new things but also feeding into my writing life and habits. As I've
mentioned before, for every book that I read or hear (good or bad). I take a few
minutes and write a review. I've reviewed over 900 books and products on Amazon and over 500
books on Goodreads. This volume has happened because I've created a writing
habit which I execute over and over.



Currently I am listening to an audiobook from historian Doris
Kearn Goodwin called Leadership . It's a book on the current
bestseller list and I got the book from my local library through Overdrive. Goodwin compares the
leadership style of four different U.S. Presidents. In my listening so far, she
has included Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
Lyndon Johnson. The background and style of each man and how they tackled the
leadership issue has been insightful. Eventually when I complete the book, I
will write and post a review. Listening to audiobooks is a habit I've cultivated
which feeds into my writing.



Whether you write a lot of a little, consistency is one of the
keys. If you begin a blog, then I encourage you to grow that blog and
consitently write or post on it. Some people use guest bloggers to fill their
blog. There are many different ways to do it—just be consistent as a basic
principle. You can also reuse this material or a book or in a newsletter or any
number of places. I have a free
teleseminar about reusing your content. Also I have a 31 Day course on making money from
your blog which is risk-free during the guarantee period.



Your writing routines will be different from my routines. Create
patterns in your life for your writing. If you do, I believe you will be more
consistent, prolific and productive. In some cases, a routine can become boring
but change it up to keep it interesting—yet continue doing the action. Each of
us as writers needs to be continually building our email list, completing magazine writing
deadlines, getting to events and meeting new people.



In my view, the payoff for having a writing routine is
completing and getting done what others just dream of doing. Many people want to
write a book but if you get that book published you enter a smaller circle of
people. And if your book sells (and not just a few but in a large number), then
you enter even a smaller number of people who succeed in writing a bestselling
book.



One of the basics is creating writing routines then sticking
with those routines. What sort of writing routines do you have? Let me know in
the comments below.



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