Set a goal to actually earn some income from your writing this year. Enough with the works in progress and plans to publish “someday.” It's time. Yes, it's hard and scary and you probably aren't ready. If you've never put your work out into the world in the form of a publish book, it's time. An eBook, a manifesto, a full-length book. So, mess with the status quo, and see what happens. Don't worry this isn't a new style - it's just an experiment. Do something that causes others, maybe even yourself, to feel uncomfortable. Break a rule. Write in an unusual voice or depart from a norm.So, take a brief break - at least a week - from the noise and focus just on the work. You will feel better, and the work will improve (promise). No one will thank you for this, which is precisely why it's important. Not your platform or your growing contingent of Internet followers, but the the thing that really matters: the writing. Get off Twitter or Instagram and spend a few hours a week writing. We base our careers on words, so the best thing you can do is absorb as many of them as possible from as many different sources as you can. Pick a book that didn't just pop up on your Amazon list read a classic or something that has nothing to do with your field. This isn't just research, it's practice - honing your craft by studying the masters who came before you. Learn from your surroundings, then use it all to make your writing better. Pay attention, shut that big mouth of yours, and open your ears once in a while. Take some time and listen - to what people are saying, to what you're reading, and to what you're writing. Don't consider yourself done until you've put in at least several hours and a few drafts in to whatever piece you're working on. This is okay - it's normal, even - because this is a marathon, not a sprint. And the second one after that usually sucks, too. Rewrite until it hurts. Let's face it.Tell us something we haven't heard before, something we won't hear unless you take some time to ask important questions like “why?” and “how?”
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