How to Enjoy Being a Writer

• Write what you want.

• Enjoy what you’re working on. You’ll finish your draft before you know it.

• Celebrate your wins, no matter how small.

• Define what success means to YOU. This looks different for everyone, so you need to learn to define it for yourself!

• Marvel over your own creativity.

• Accept that first drafts suck. The revision and editing process is for correcting your draft’s suckiness!

• TRY! No matter what is is, try. Because you’ll never know unless you try.

• Give yourself time instead of forcing words on the page. Listen to your creative mind.

• Finish your draft before you edit/revise. You’ll go bananas if you go back and forth between writing and making corrections.

• Maintain a healthy balance of what works for you.