Build Your Inventory – #3

Building your inventory of stories and novels gives you a lot of manuscripts to send out to agents and editors. But how do you work up to creating so many stories? One way is by building your writing muscles. Shannon Donnelly has written an article to help you build up those muscles for the long haul.

10 Steps to Big Writing Muscles

1. Pay attention to your body. Eat well-balanced meals, limit alcohol and caffeine so your mind stays sharp.
2. Establish a habit of “warms-up” that begin every writing session. Sit at your desk and write one page of anything.
3. Go over last five pages of your current project and do light editing.
4. Stretch yourself by writing one more page each week than you consider productive and comfortable.
5. Plan your training. If you write short stories, work your sprinting muscles by write a new short story each week. If you write novels, write every day to develop your marathon muscles.
6. Avoid writer’s block with two strategies – stop writing in mid-sentence and mid scene and no staring at the blank screen… write something, anything.
7. Pay yourself as motivation. Set your per page rate and put the money into a piggy bank to be spent after you finish your first draft and a second-draft edit.
8. Make your writing place comfortably yours with the proper furniture and equipment.
9. Ease yourself back into your training schedule after vacation or illness.
10. Take short breaks during your writing sessions.

Daily writing progress will build your writing muscles. Get started today.

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