Day 24: Think Outside the Box

This tip will dramatically increase your writing speed.
You have tons of time in your day during which your brain is underemployed. If you're like most Americans, you're filling every idle moment of your day with noise. Let's put that time to work for your writing project.
ASSIGNMENT: Write for one hour.
If you’re still working up to writing for one hour, that’s OK. Make sure you’re consistently challenging yourself to increase your writing time, so that you’ll get to one-hour writing blocks soon.
Write for the time period you’ve assigned for yourself, and then use the remainder of your hour to continue to build out your Novel Matrix plan. If time remains, read something that you love.
FOR FURTHER STUDY: Find more strategies for completing a novel project with The Novel Matrix book at NovelMatrix.com, or the Novel Matrix classes at Writers.Company.
This episode is hosted by Brad Pauquette. Learn more about Brad and join his newsletter at BradPauquette.com.

[@noodlemum32]

Such good advice!

[@bradpauquette]

Glad to hear it's helpful for you!

[@Drudenfusz]

It is not the boredom in itself that is providing fertile ground for creativity, it the the time spend thinking. Sure, having no noise can be helpful, but since I am constantly evaluating an judging ideas I encounter and thus almost never capable of just consuming passively, all the noise is for me just as fertile if not even more so that silence. But then I might not be the target audience here, since I am have no dedicated time to write, but often use my former procrastination habits of watching youtube or listen to podcasts as the igniting spark to write, since I see my writing participation in a cultural debate, thus it is in a real sense me answering the thoughts other people have. Again, that comes from always interacting with ideas and ot just consuming them. But I understand that I might be not the norm in doing that.

[@bradpauquette]

If you're already able to write 1,000+ words per hour and you're accomplishing your writing goals, then I think you can safely ignore this advice. If you're not yet achieving that rate, I recommend experimenting with it. It might not be for everyone, but worth a try! 🙂

[@officialmycrazyamericanfat7811]

Once I bagan writing that actually began happening on its own. Used to always listen to something in the shower. Now I'm annoyed if there's anything but the sound of water and the fan.

[@bradpauquette]

haha, that's awesome.