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Commit to Doing the Work · The Daily Writer

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: We writers love to create stories.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: And why not?
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: There's something fun about creating a fantasy world, about living in it for a little while and inviting other people to join us there.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, however, those fantasies bleed over into the real world and we find ourselves not quite living in reality.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Here's one of the fantasies that we love.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: We have this fantasy of sitting down to write and all of a sudden we feel magically inspired with an endless supply of motivation and great ideas.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the truth is that it doesn't always work that way.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: Most of the time we sit down to write and we don't feel the creative juices flowing immediately.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Then we just assume that we're not talented or creative.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: On our worst days, we even start to wonder if we should be writing in the first place.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: 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.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Inspiration doesn't usually come on the front end of writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead, we have to sit down and go to work.
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  SPEAKER_00: After we've done some writing, the muse typically shows up and gives us some inspiration to keep going.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, you have to put some gas in the tank before you can go anywhere.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Inspiration is like the feather from the beginning shot of Forrest Gump.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a fickle thing that's blown in by the wind.
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  SPEAKER_00: It comes and goes as it pleases, but you can't rely on this because it's so unpredictable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a better way to approach it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a better system.
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  SPEAKER_00: Commit to doing the work and let inspiration come whenever it will.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what all true professionals do.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: I want to take a moment to let you know about our daily writer membership community.
• 1:54
  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.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're tired of feeling isolated and chasing success on your own, then I know you're going to love the Daily Writer community.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: For years, I searched for the kind of writing community that I would want to join, but I can never find what I wanted, so I created my own.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the features include weekly writing sprints, monthly community calls, book discussions, calls with guest experts, and much more.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: For more info, you can visit dailywriterlife.comslash community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.