using routine to your advantage

When I was writing The Journey...Home I discovered that routine was as important a part of the process, as inspiration.

Somedays the work flows better than others, for sure, but you have to turn up in the first place to discover that.  If you give yourself a specific time of day to write, much like any other job, then you will actually find the connection to your creativity begins to 'switch on'.

We all have days when we don't want to go to work, why would it be any different with writing.  My point is that some of those days end up being your best!  So don't let a little melancholy stop you. 

Our moods are reflective of our work, but our work can also be reflective of our mood and this might actually improve your story.  This is what adds the life to it.  Remember you don't always have to write in order either.  Perhaps if you're having a glum day just write and see what comes up, work on something different.

I don't know about you, but my mood is also affected by the weather.  It's been pretty wet and wild here for the last few days and that has reflected in my writing.  Will it be for the better or worse?  We'll find out when I get to rewriting I guess.  No matter.  The point is that I've written and I've kept the momentum going.  Once the story is out and that first draft is finished that's when all the 'crap' gets filtered out.

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges." Ernest Hemingway

Regardless of how you are feeling, write, and write everyday (at the same time of day if you possibly can)that is how great things are made.  One step at a time until eventually you look back at the long winding road behind you and wonder what all the fuss was about - you made it!

Check out the new song today to give you that nudge perhaps you need, or just more inpiration.  Either way I bet you want to get to work once you've listened! Click here

Happy writing ;)

Emma