It was not until November that I discovered how truly beneficial it is to write daily. After writing for 29 days straight I discovered so many things. What I have been told so far by other writers are completely true and it feels great to experience it than just to listen to that advice.
Flow gets better
Better sentences
Writing every day helps to fine-tune
your sentences. Words will get apt with whatever you wish to convey. As you
write daily, you will discover that you are getting better at forming a variety
of new sentences that you have not used before and the exact fit will click in
place more effortlessly.
Keeps you hooked with the story
Your mind is always so close to
the story that you don’t have to read the previous chapter to get back to it.
You will find the link getting stronger with the story and keep you on track
without looking back. Some people say that you will take time to come up with better
twists and a break in between will help. Maybe. But, at the same time, taking
too much break in between will only cut you short making you unable to think
easily. The feel of the story inside your head will stay stronger as you write
daily.
Breaking your own record
As you get to write daily, your
thinking speed and typing speed will increase enormously and you will wonder
at breaking your own targets. With the flow of thoughts coming out easily,
sometimes you will even find that your thinking speed exceeds your writing
speed and that you will have to type faster to match that in order to not lose
any fresh ideas. Slowly, your daily word count targets will get meaningless as
you have flourished much more than that.
Determination
Strangely, I also found that when
I wrote daily, there is a push that kicks me to write until I finished what I
started. Sometimes, in the middle, when I struggle to take the story further,
my mind somehow stops working on it. I didn’t have a clue how to proceed.
Still, once I sit and start to write, things will fall in place. After all, the
first draft is not the one landing up in the reader's hands. Rarely, I sit to write
without having anything particular in my mind. As I write a few sentences,
things get to take form giving me new ideas to write further in my story.
Imparting the feel
Only when you feel the way your characters feel, your story can make an impact on readers. If your story has to stay in your readers' minds for a long time, write with the feel of putting yourself into the shoes of your characters. Writing daily will help you achieve that as you stay connected with the story by coming back to it on a daily basis.
Satisfaction
When I finish achieving my daily
target, it feels so calm and energetic that I did it once more. Writing is all
about enjoying the time you invest in putting out your thoughts in the form of
words. As you practice writing daily, your thoughts come onto the page
effortlessly conveying the meaning exactly as you wish. Playing around with words
and forming poetical sentences get far easier as you write consistently.
Even 500 words a day, when you are running short of ideas, will go a long way
to achieve greater heights.
The confidence it provides when you practice writing daily
is unmatched.
Happy writing...!
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