Stamina
The magic bullet
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Stamina
Writing Prompt
WWT Tool Kit Craft Card
Stamina
This week I caught myself searching the internet for a magic bullet.
Stamina.
How do I increase it?
Specifically, how do I write more today than I did yesterday?
I’ve been watching this business guy on YouTube, and he talks about how you can charge a lot more for products that make solving the problem as easy as possible and/or pull the solution forward in time. So, for example, it costs more to buy liposuction (minimal effort, results immediate) than a diet and exercise program (hard work, slow results).
I was looking for the liposuction of writing stamina.
I didn’t find it. Maybe it’ll exist someday, but it doesn’t exist today.
Which leaves the diet and exercise route.
It’s a fitting analogy, really. Stamina is akin to a muscle. And just like you build muscle with reps, you build stamina by accumulating reps.
Each rep is a writing session. Maybe you start with 25 minutes. A pomodoro. Hey, it’s not nothing. And it’s achievable, which is important. Failure leads to disappointment which too often leads to quitting, but success begets success. So if 25 minutes is where you’re starting, no worries. Just start.
Tomorrow make it thirty minutes. Or even 26 minutes. Even at a one-minute-more-each-day pace you’ll be writing for 6+ hours a day by the end of the year. That’s some productivity.
Guess how much writing stamina you build searching for the magic bullet?
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Cool. Now let’s see if I can listen to my own pep talk.
Writing Prompt
Character: AVENGER
Light Attribute: Desire to balance the scales of justice. Righteousness on behalf of society or oneself.
Shadow Attributes: Resorting to violence in the name of a cause.Setting: Nursing home.
Object: a book, a chair, a tree.
Emotion: INADEQUATE. Worthless, incompetent, ill-equipped.
WWT Tool Kit Craft Card
As mentioned before, I’m making a deck of craft cards to quickly remind myself of techniques while also having a convenient place to keep track of elements like character, conflict, and theme specific to each story. This week’s card is
Thank you for reading!
I hope this helped you, and I hope your writing goes well this week.
Keep at it,
Megan
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