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your WPH will naturally raise your WPD.
That stamina has taken me a LONG time to build.
The key is constant, incremental progress. Each day needs to be better than the last.
What is your current WPH and WPD for each category?
For me, it most often struck when I was mid-project, which is why my hard drive is littered with the corpses of half-finished novels. I’d get around the 50-60% mark, decide I hated what I was writing, and then quit.
motivation. If you can finish a draft in 30-45 days you’re much more likely to finish it.
I am taking too long to finish drafts.
FUN.
For this reason, I set my pace at four books a year, two longer 100-120k novels and two 65-75 shorter novels in an easier first person series.
Make reasonable goals and pace yourself so you don't burnout.
Writing socially should motivate, not distract.
I’ve found that easiest to do with social media, which I suspect may be true for many of you since many writers are introverts like me.
There are a number of writing forums out there, from the Writer’s Cafe at Kboards to Absolute Write. Join them. Make friends. Talk to other writers. These relationships will benefit you for
the rest of your career, and other writers can help your motivation just as you’ll help theirs.
Gamification
Warcraft. Players will spend 8-12 hours a day clicking away in a virtual world, because the game has been engineered to trigger dopamine rushes.
Dopamine releases can be attached to positive behaviors.
You can post your sprints to Facebook or twitter, and you have the ability to monitor your own progress.
Join the herd. Pick at least one forum you aren’t currently going to.
Bonus: Convince writers in your community to start running writing sprints. If they already are, then join in!
Mindset. Is. Everything.
Toastmasters.
The more I’ve achieved, the more I’ve realized that there are often toxic people in your life holding you back.
I can sum up all the changes I’ve mentioned in three words: raise your standards.
Visualize the Future
Want to be the next Stephen King? Spend some time daydreaming about cashing a check for fifty million dollars. Jim Carey did.
Reticular Activating System,
When you tell your brain that you want to become a best-selling author anything that will make that a reality suddenly becomes significant. You’ll notice opportunities and tools that you never would have seen before, all through the simple act of daydreaming about what you want to achieve.
Get out a pen and paper or fire up a text document. Write down where you see yourself in five years if everything went perfectly. You’ve
After you’ve completed the above spend 10 minutes thinking about it.
If that’s the case I urge you to continue to the next page where I’ve compiled all the exercises.
Conduct at least one sprint every day. Track the results.
Exercises Below you’ll find all the exercises listed throughout the book for easy reference.
