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After inspiration, the most important gift you can bring to your
book writing is discipline. It sets the writer
in you free. “Free,” you say, “how can you use
the words discipline and free in the same sentence?”
Many years ago, looking for options when our youngest daughter
was about to start school, we visited our local Montessori School.
We were surprised to see four and five-year old children moving
down the hall quietly, in orderly lines, virtually unsupervised.
We wondered what great fear caused these children to be so well
behaved. After all, normal children ran and shouted and shoved each
other unless adults stopped them, right? Wrong!
As we watched even younger children in class, three-year olds played
quietly, serenely and happily with a variety of educational activities,
alone, in pairs or in groups – with hardly a word from the
teachers! Amazing!
When we queried the teachers about rigidity and creativity we discovered
the concept of complete freedom within set boundaries.
Set yourself some book writing boundaries. Make
the decision that you will write every day from
six to eight in the morning, or from 10 to 12 at night and every
Sunday evening -- whatever works for you, but make sure that you
write daily.
Decide that you will write either for a certain
amount of time or until you have completed a set number of pages.
A best-selling writer colleague writes three pages
per day and stops when she is done. That may not sound like a lot,
but think of it. At a writing rate of three pages
per day, how long will it take you to complete writing a 150-page
book? Fifty days! That is less than two months. Would you like to
be finished your first draft
in only two months?
Once you have a set structure in place, once you have discipline,
you will find that you no longer worry about when or how you will
write. That will have been taken care of. Now your
creativity is set free. All you have to worry about is writing,
and only for the time period or page count that you have promised
yourself. You will be amazed at how your creativity will have been
set free to soar. No only that, but now you will have the rest of
the day to play, or work or be a parent, guilt free. Your writing
will have been done.
And there is another secret benefit to writing
discipline. After you will have been writing for
a month or so, you will see more magic happen. It takes only one
month to create a habit. By now you will have created a new habit,
a daily writing habit, and habits are hard to break.
By now you will have become addicted to your writing
schedule and your discipline will be no longer a chore but a joy.
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