Prolifically Raw: Writing Tip: Creating Your Writing Habit

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Writing Tip: Creating Your Writing Habit

& stick to it.

Joyce Carole Oats says she prefers to write in the morning, before breakfast. She’s a creative writing professor, and on the days she teaches, she says she writes for an hour or 45 minutes before leaving for her first class. On other days, when the writing is going well, she can work for hours without a break — and has breakfast at 2 or 3 in the afternoon!

Write when you write well. Make a habit of it, everyday. Make no excuses (rather, use that time of complaint to write).