Exercising Your Writing Muscles
By Michael Stelzner
Do you immediately start writing with great quality and consistently?
Or (if you are like me), do you need a little warm-up before those fingers start producing exceptional content?
I was recently reading Angela Booth’s newsletter Fab Freelance Writing and she mentioned this:
Warming up your writing helps you to avoid burnout.
When you’re writing for money, it’s easy to become stressed.
Try warming up before you write every day.
My writing warm-up:
- I write a blog entry (this gets me thinking)
- I put my iPod on classical music and tune out the noise
- I begin writing very poorly, but get it all the thoughts documented
Once I have completed my warm-up, I crack open a Pepsi One and begin re-examining my work and go to town.
So, here is my question to you: How do you warm up your writing muscles?
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