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How Writing Actually Gets Done · The Daily Writer

• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Hey my friend, welcome to this episode of the Daily Writer Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the reasons that writing feels so hard to so many people is because their expectation doesn't match the reality of how a clean draft of a book or of any content actually gets written.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: Many people have this idea of just sitting down at a computer and letting the words flow out perfectly.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: The heavens open up, the birds outside are singing, and a ray of light descends from above as they post their work, as they email it, or as they send it off to the editor.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: And that, however, as you can imagine, that is not how good writing actually gets done.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: I like unwriting to sort of like mowing your lawn with a push mower.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of manual labor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's pretty monotonous.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: You've got to go back and get the spots you missed, and you get pretty messy in the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, while you're mowing the lawn, you get sweaty and dirty and you can't see the big picture.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: You're just focused on getting that grass that's right in front of you.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: But when you're done, you can put the lawn mower away, you can take a shower, and you can go outside and you can admire all the hard work that you did.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: You get to stand back and look at your perfectly mowed lawn and appreciate all of your hard work.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: I really think that's kind of what writing is like.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's sweaty, it's monotonous at most of the time, it's dirty, it's sometimes very frustrating.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: But then when you're done, you can see all the good work that you did.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, good writing is created through hard work, persistence, multiple drafts, editing, and finally, and most importantly, finishing what you started.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: This is how professionals work, and it's how you must work as well.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you want to write badly enough that you're willing to endure the messy part of writing in order to get to that wonderful final draft?
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 2:01
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• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, one of the very best ways to develop better habits and impact more people's lives with your writing is to spend time around other successful writers.
• 2:14
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• 2:21
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• 2:28
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• 2:37
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.