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How to Build a Better Writing Habit
Even creative work needs scheduling. The greatest writers and artists didn’t wait for inspiration. They kept a strict daily schedule for creating their art. A routine triggers inspiration because your mind and body learn that ideas emerge at that time. The world’s greatest achievements were squeezed into existence by deadlines.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
The time it takes to develop a creative practice is nothing in comparison to the time wasted on being scattered, procrastinating, and self-flagellating when you don’t have a system.
Jessica Abel • Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life
how some of the greatest minds of the past four hundred years approached this exact same task—that is, how they made the time each day to do their best work, how they organized their schedules in order to be creative and productive.
Mason Currey • Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
For me, carving out the time for writing—even when there's a million and five other things that need to get done—is pivotal in STRETCHING time.
It's pretty simple: the days I write, I have more space inside.
It's pretty simple: the days I write, I have more space inside.