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Commit to writing for five minutes

Commit to writing for five minutes

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Commit to writing for five minutes

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- Tell yourself you'll only write for five minutes. This is one of my all time favorite tricks. On days where you're really struggling to make yourself sit down and write, tell yourself you'll sit down and write for five minutes. If nothing's happening after five minutes, at least you tried. It is astonishing how often those days are the days where the breakthroughs happen. Taking the pressure off of yourself may be all that you need to get on a roll. Sometimes that resistance might be because you know there's something in there and you'll have to face it if you sit down to write. It's always worth exploring. That being said, if it's just not coming, stop. There's no point in making yourself miserable. You can always sit back down to write again tomorrow.

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