How To Motivate Yourself To Write Everyday

We all know we should try, but how can we bring ourselves to do it?

To be a writer you don’t need to write every day, but it makes a good habit to try to write as much as you can so that you never stop moving forward in your story.

If you write one day a week it’s easy to forget it when it comes around and suddenly you haven't written anything in a month.

Your novel isn’t going to write itself so you should be trying to write any day that you can.

Telling yourself you need to write and actually having the motivation to sit down (or stand up) and do it are two different things.

If you need to find a way to motivate yourself to get those words on the page, try a few of the methods below.

This method is author tested and author approved.

Setting a goal to reach on a daily or weekly basis can almost guarantee that you’ll find the time to write especially if you include a reward/punishment system to your word goals.

If you make your weekly goal you can use rewards such as ordering weekend takeout, watching your favorite tv show, or simple enough as not having to write on the weekend. If you don’t make the goal well… you’ll just have to save the Pad Thai order for the next week when you make your goal.

Make sure to tell someone about your goal and your reward system so that there will be someone to hold you accountable instead of letting yourself off the hook for it every week.

If it wasn’t for set deadlines almost all of my old school assignments and essays would have remained unwritten and the same goes for some of my novels. If I have forever to do it then I will take forever to do it. If I have a deadline and a goal in sight it is much easy to tell myself that I have to write to have the work finished by the set day.

Try setting a deadline for your novel a reasonable amount of time out, but not so far out that you believe you don’t have to work on it because you have plenty of time. Think of setting the deadline between 4–6 months out to give yourself plenty of time to complete it without stressing that it’s…

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