Getting Good: A Guide on How to Actually Start Writing Every Day

You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again: in order to be a successful writer you need to write every day, no questions asked, just put some words on the page.

I have drawn a hamburger and half a curse word, thank God.

All the “greats” do/did it: Stephen King, Maya Angelou, Hemingway. The point is in the repetition, it’s in the practice, and according to many sources it’s probably one of the key ways to “get good.”

However, very few advice pieces actually clarify on how to sit yourself down and do it day in and day out. People often say the principle behind it is simple: just sit down and do it.

As many of you know, it’s not that simple.

You want me to type? With words?? In sentences? What the fuck, what fu

There can be a lot of mental blocks surrounding the process of starting to write, whether it be fear of failure, various distractions, or simply looking at a blank page and forgetting what language is. It goes without saying, it’s easy not to start.

At a base level the struggle to write is an internal one. This means, unfortunately, the biggest person in your way is always going to be you.