Are you caught in the trap of waiting for the perfect time to write? If so, I have bad news. The perfect time to write is now. Really. Just open up your document (or grab your notebook) and commit words.
Curiously, the words you commit don’t actually have to be on your project. The thing you need to do is break the impasse.
Sitting there fretting about writing isn’t helping.
Waiting for the right mood isn’t helping.
Cleaning your kitchen isn’t helping either, though that, at least, has some long-term benefit.
What WILL help is actually breaking into prose-generating phase. Get some words down. They can even be words on a side project.
And then, once you have words going, flip to that thing that you thought you were going to spend your morning on.
And write.
That’s what I’m going to do… because as I already told you,
THE PERFECT TIME TO WRITE IS NOW.
For other suggestions on jump-starting your writing, see:
- The Silence of Not Writing
- Starting from a Place of Blah
- How to Jump-Start a Scholarly Article: The Plan
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