What I Learned Writing Thirty Self-Development Articles in Thirty Days

Just because I love writing doesn’t mean I love doing it every day. A lot of this craft is still unpleasant — awful even.

Avoiding carbohydrates, sugar, and caffeine and exercising — especially just before writing — made me write more creative, more humorous, uplifting and exciting material.

Start a piece with a premise. Then expand it to a short outline. It is much easier to write a longer piece when you can see a coherent overview in front of you.

The writing that brings me to life and gets me emotional always does better.

The process taught me that discipline is about 95% courage, as opposed to having particular genes that make you robotically disciplined.

You need the courage to overcome the negative feelings you have when embarking on a new piece of writing, at a set time, when you don’t want to.

The excitement and novelty of starting have worn off, and the end seems miles away.

Starting is one thing, but the real skill is wrapping things up in time, and being ok with imperfection in the work.