Writing Habits: How to Have Good Daily Writing Habits of Successful Authors

What differentiates a successful author from an aspiring author? Writing habits.

Aspiring authors dream of writing and publishing their books. Successful authors put in the work necessary because they want to see results.

Becoming a successful writer starts with one factor: Sitting down to write. Thankfully, creating a writing habit is simpler than you may realize.

Success starts with forming the right habits, so in this video, we teach you how to create your writing habit by:

- Defining your end goal
- Breaking your big goal into smaller goals
- Taking practical steps to meet these small goals
- And more!

This video creates the framework to help you write and publish your book so you can take your first step toward success today!

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[selfpublishingTV]

What does your writing habit look like right now?

[vickytaa]

I think the biggest struggle to create a writing habit is to accept the sacrifices you'll have to make in order to write. To finish a book you'll have to give stuff up. Maybe going out a Saturday night with friends, or accept you won't be able to spend as much time with your kids. Maybe you'll have to give up sleeping time, or working out time. Writing is difficult and it takes a lot of time. You have to accept you will need to take that time out of another activity.

[madhusudhan]

Step No. 1
a. Define the end goal (ex: how you finish the book, How many chapters in the book)
b. Define how many words you are completing today like 30 thousand words or 40 thousand words, what is the end result?

Step No. 2
1. Reverse engineering makes smaller goals. Break the goal smaller pieces like how many words you are going to complete today. How long you actually want to spend to do doing this.

Step No.3
Scheduling your writing time

Step No.4
Put everybody notice on your schedule :

Step No. 5
Follow through with your schedule 100% for three weeks, you can build any kind of habit 21 days.

[ShariHamrick]

I start with the end in mind, if I get stuck I work on the cover. visuals sometimes really help jog the imagination for me.

[snehsingh]

I am very very grateful for your video, and i learned a lot from this video about writer's habits, thanks.

[kathleendixon]

Very helpful tips and training. Thanks for this. I thrive on structure and this provides a really good framework to follow.

[MrCharliebell]

I stopped counting the daily words and only use the Pomodoro timer method (writing for 25 minutes at a time and then a 5-minute break). I aim for 4 or 5 Pomodoros per day, always at the same time. Sometimes I'm just researching and not writing but that is still constructive and essential. I do have a final word count target to hit, but I use this Pomodoro technique to get there, it seems to take the pressure off the word count and focusses more on continuous progression.

[sambsadashiv]

Very motivating video thank you so much for inspiring to write.

[sulaimansamil]

Thank you so much. The video was really helpful 👍

[kathleendixon]

My writing habit is just being formed - I know I need to write 1, 567 words a day, or 10, 696 words per week to reach my goal of finishing the rough draft in 30 days. I know I write better before lunch, leaving my afternoon open for other things. I do not have a traditional job and all my kids are grown so I have a quiet household, and a husband who will respect my writing time. Today I will discover how long it takes me to put 1, 567 words onto paper (WORD) using my mindmap and outline as a guide. I can do this!

[ചല്ലുംപുല്ലും]

Idk what to say. The things you said, I didn't catch anything .It's nice to watch you say things

[JoeySehn]

I just end up writing too much. My current book series is five books long, and has so much revising to do, but I’m so into the plot, that I don’t want to revise it until it’s over, then go back, and fix all the plot holes and such

[kyleighd]

When I wrote I used to write a chapter a day because I needed to have enough for my friend to read during my language arts class in eighth grade.

[marysomervell]

'What is my priority today?' That helps narrow down what to focus on every day.

[alishalegrand]

I have a habit that I do when I get up I like to listen to a band called the cranberries which is also the band that I am working on some books for I’m writing currently three books about the cranberries and they are all about the band members of the cranberries in my life as a cranberry fan which is a 1990s band now when I decided to write I was 10 years old I have been writing it since I was 10 it is now several years since I have been writing the book I have three books it is a series in the first one which is called The Cranberries life is a band is almost completed a rough draft but I always listen to my cranberries music before I start writing I do it every single day and I write I make an angle and I read couple pages a day or a couple paragraphs a day some days if I’m really in a writing mood I can write up to an entire chapter in a day but I do have a routine I always listen to the cranberries Before I start writing for the day and most typically I rate between the hours of 9 PM to 4:30 AM and those are my typical hours that I write in between

[eman_dotti]

the only struggle i have is one of those "i wish i had your problem, dotti" problems lol i have a sh^^ tonne of web-like interconnected info in my head, it's just a matter of *where the hell do i start??* . i have ADHD/ASD so... anyhoo i booked a session for tomorro. uhhh speaking of which, if i HAD the moolah let alone 4 freakin figures to invest in a decent project ie in my case, my book, oh oh i SO would. you get what you pay for. im doing everything the hard way because it's only me and im a newb with zero help. *SIGH* heres hoping again... :)

[purpleandblue]

I'll be back in any days and I'll comment if this is helpful.

[dinodan]

I just made my Mum make it a school subject, so every day I do half an hour.

[lucasmercier]

My thing is two pages a day. It's the last thing I do after homework and work

[skaterdude]

How many times I stopped listen because of how pretty you are