Three Weeks of Writing Every Day

Three weeks into the “not a day without a line” challenge. Here is the technique of lighting one match from another, so you never sit down to a blank page.

It has been exactly three weeks since I started writing every day.

Some people say 21 days is enough for a new habit to form.

Starting on November 23rd, I set myself the challenge of “not a day without a new line,” and so far I sit down to write daily. I like it. So far I manage to publish every day too.

Just as I planned, I write in the first half of the day, while my head is fresh and before I have picked up my phone. That approach helps me a great deal.

Sometimes I feel inspired, but most of the time I don’t. That is when discipline kicks in.

I use the technique of “lighting one match from another.” The trick works like this: once you have sat down to write and finished the post, you write a few more lines for the next publications. Or at least draft the headlines.

That way, if I sit down the next day with no inspiration and no ideas, several new ideas and written paragraphs are already waiting for me from yesterday.

And once you start editing text you have already written, or keep developing yesterday’s thought, you quickly enter a state of literary flow and write a lot, for a long time. In that flow it is important, again, to write a few starters for the future. That is how the “one match from another” technique works.

This way you don’t need a muse, the habit forms, and text goes public regularly.

I don’t know how long I will be able to publish daily posts without a break, but for now I like this “not a day without a line” challenge.

Do you like writing? And do you plan time and a place for it?