I aim to complete my words in the morning because I don't want the challenge to turn into a stress that I have to squeeze into the end of my workday just to get done. At this point I have a lot of ideas there to run with already. I also always keep a note on my phone for whenever ideas come to me – I try to jot them down as quickly as possible, along with any bullet points for what I might cover. Something that really helped me when I first completed this challenge was to spend a day brainstorming blog post ideas. I know that I can write 1,000 very quickly if I know my subject matter and if I set the intention to really focus ( which this app helps me to do). If you don’t feel so confident you could always reduce the goal to 500 words a day, which would still give you lots of content to work with at the end of the month, and be the foundation of a great writing habit (and you’ll probably get more efficient at writing by the end of it, too) Because writing is easy, but it can also feel so very hard. And no matter what else I achieve in a day, if I've written something I know I've done something that matters to me. More than anything, I love setting myself this goal to get me back into the habit of just writing. Whenever I make writing a priority, it just feels… right. Some of what I write will be useable in my business, some won't, and that's fine. It's also about stream-of-consciousness ideas, playing with creativity, sowing seeds for future blog posts, and writing for writing's sake. But the challenge would be too restrictive if were all about perfect, polished, final drafts. ![]() That could be enough for an eBook, lots of blog posts, some powerful email sequences, etc. In a month of writing on weekdays, I’ll end up with over 20,000 words written. (In fact, thanks to far-too-low rates, I had to write a lot more than that and I got burnt out.) So I feel that 1,000 words a day is very doable for someone who is already used to writing, but the goal is also big enough to stretch me and force me to commit to something. I know that 1,000 words a day sounds a lot, but in my freelance writing past I used to write at least 1,000 words a day easily. It’s about learning not just to write when you “feel like it” or are “inspired”, but writing when you choose to and making it part of your routine. I initially had the idea to write 1,000 words a day after reading this post from Nathan Barry, who did it for over 600 days. I enjoyed reading his experience of getting into a firm habit of just creating (Nathan's mantra is “create every day”). ![]() UPDATED FOR MARCH 2019 Why 1,000 Words A Day? So I'm using this challenge to write a combination of content for this blog & my newsletter, and whatever else I feel like at the time. Writing is at the heart of almost everything I do in my business, and it's also a creative outlet that I've been missing lately. ![]() This month I’ve decided to set myself a challenge: to write 1,000 words every weekday for the entire month.
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