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This is What Professionals Do · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyWriterlife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We writers love to create stories.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: And why not?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's something fun about creating a fantasy world, living in it for a while, and then inviting other people to join us there as readers.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes these fantasies bleed over into the real world where we don't quite live in reality.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: For example, here's one of the fantasies that we just love as writers.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: We sit down to write and all of a sudden we feel magically inspired with an endless supply of motivation and great ideas.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Now, of course, we know it doesn't always work that way, but I mean a writer can dream, can't he?
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Most of the time, here's how it actually works.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: We sit down to write and we don't feel the creative juices flowing immediately.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then we assume because of that we're not talented or we're not creative.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: And on our worst days, we even start to wonder if we should be writing in the first place.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: The horror master Stephen King gave us some incredible wisdom when he said this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration.
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  SPEAKER_00: The rest of us just get up and go to work.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: The truth is that inspiration doesn't usually come on the front end of writing.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, we've got to sit down and get to work.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: And after we've done some writing, the muse will show up and then inspire us to keep on going.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, you've got to put some gas in the tank before you can go anywhere.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: So here's today's challenge.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: What are you doing today to put gas in your creative tank?
• 1:47
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• 2:03
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• 2:08
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• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow.