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Writing can feel hard — this is how to make it easy
In my past professional life, I was a journalist who wrote on deadline every day for more than a decade.
You’d think writing would become easy — and it did — but there was a catch.
Even though I was at the top of my game and being pushed every day to produce on tight timelines, pumping out quality content at that pace required one thing above all else: consistency.
Good habits beget great results
I once came back from a lengthy vacation to find that my brain just wasn’t clicking when I was trying to write.
Because the beat I covered was very seasonally based, I would go hard and pick up a ton of overtime working nights and weekends from the early fall to the late spring and then take most of the summer off.
When I’d get back, it would take me at least a couple of weeks to feel like I was getting back to my baseline performance.
I once mentioned this to a colleague who did the same work I did and he was like, “YES, it takes so much more effort when I get back from any time away.”
If you’re a writer on this platform or anywhere else who is struggling to get words down on the page, I think it’s helpful to look at writing like going to the gym.
