Writing Tip–Exercising Your Writing Muscle

July 20, 2009 by Chris
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typewriter1 Writing Tip Exercising Your Writing Muscle Today’s writing tip is about honing your craft. Your writing muscle is much different from your physical muscles. If you follow off your regular schedule, it takes time to return to your previous fitness level.

Depending on your source, if you stop exercising for two weeks after a regular regime, it’ll take about that amount of time for your body to get back to where it was. The best way to stay in shape is to keep up the exercising schedule. So, it is with writing.

It is not as important to do the same type of writing as it is to just write. Write every day. No matter if you’re writing a blog or composing a novel, you experience the same challenges of searching for a word, feeling at a loss for an idea, struggling with the perfect copy. Those are precisely the type of skills you need to keep yourself in practice.

You want to instinctively know how to research. Whether you’re writing non-fiction or fiction, research is part of the game. You want to write efficiently and make the best use of your time. You want to write tight and interesting.

A lot of your time after completing your work is spent on the tough stuff like editing and proofing. Keeping a blog keeps you involved with your craft and on the essential skills.

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Writing Tip Exercising Your Writing Muscle

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Amelie Rencontres on Thu, 23rd Jul 2009 2:47 am

I prepare and drink coffee. I blog. I review notes from last writing session. Begin writing. Drink another coffee, reread, revise and continue.
I wonder what would happen if I killed the coffee habit?