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10 Best Daily Writing Rituals
I think that it’s important for writers to rely on writing rituals. This is what keeps you getting up and writing every single day even when you really don’t feel like it. There are many different writing rituals that you can do to keep the writing flowing.
My ten favorite options for daily writing rituals are:
- Journaling. I happen to think that keeping a daily journal is the best thing that a writer can do for himself or herself. This is how you get to know yourself, comment on your own ideas and keep track of your progress from one goal to another.
- Poem per day. A great creative project is to commit to writing one poem per day. It’s a way to get your thoughts flowing. If you’re actually a poet, you can edit these later but you can also just use it as an exercise to make sure you get words down every day. Check out the daily Twitter poems by @dragonblogger to see a great example of how to stay inspired to write a poem every day.
- 1-page repetitious observation. With this project, you study the same thing every single day and write one page about what you see. I’ve done this before with writing about the couch that sits across from my bed. It’s a great challenge to see how many different ways you can write about the same thing.
- 5 Questions. Create a list of five questions that you want to ask yourself every day. These should be questions like, “what did I dream about?” or “if I could do anything I wanted today, what would I choose?” or “how would I describe myself to a stranger?” Answer 1-5 questions daily in writing.
- Describe a photo. Choose one photo or image each day and write about it. This challenges you to put your visual ideas into words.
- A daily blog. If you like putting your words out there for everyone else to read then you can commit to writing daily on your blog. As long as the focus is on the writing and not on the blog development itself then this is a good writing ritual.
- Pull from the dictionary. Open the dictionary and pull out a random word. Right twenty different sentences using that word.
- Pull from a book. Open up any book at all and take a sentence from it. Use that sentence as the start of a short short story. Write one super short story per day.
- Fortunately, unfortunately. Write a line that starts with “fortunately” and then write a line that follows it that starts with “unfortunately”. Continue this pattern through an entire page of writing. You often end up feeling silly which makes your writing feel fun again.
- Do a writing exercise book. You can also find books that have different daily writing exercises. The Artists’ Way series is my favorite creativity book (which can be used for writers) but there are lots of others out there.
Each of this writing rituals can be done in less than an hour (sometimes a lot less). You can commit at least that much effort to your writing each day, can’t you?
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