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Your Writing is Not All About You · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Here on this podcast, we talk a lot about topics that are focused on the writer.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We spend a lot of time thinking about mindset, habits, success, and related areas.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: All those topics are important and they feed into our broader goal, which is serving other people with our writing.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: You've probably heard the phrase, if a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear it?
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the same could be said about our books.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: If nobody ever reads the book, does it matter that somebody wrote it?
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know, writing is a great tool for overcoming fear, for building a business and for making an income and all sorts of other benefits, but all those things ultimately exist for the purpose of adding value to the world, for serving others.
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  SPEAKER_00: The author Madeline Langell wrote, I am pretty sure that writing may be a way of life in itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can be that because it continually forces us away from self toward others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your writing is first of all about you because, of course, you're the one making it happen, but it must not end there.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: Ultimately, your writing is about serving and inspiring other people.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: If you've been listening to this show for any length of time, you know that one of the four practices of a great writer is creativity.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: And in order to stay creative, you've got to have great input.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: And that's where writing prompts come in.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: A writing prompt is a sentence or two that helps you break through creative blocks, brainstorm new ideas, and get back into a state of flow.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: Writing prompts are an awesome creative tool for journaling, storytelling, creative writing, stress relief, social media posts, and so much more.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: But the great news is that you don't have to create these yourself.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: We've put together an amazing package of 365 daily writing prompts.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: So every day for the next year, you can have a shot of inspiration delivered straight to your inbox.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: You can check it out at dailywriterlife.comslash writing prompts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.