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Habits: The Pathway to Writing Success · 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.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyWriterLife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: As a writer, you long to make a difference in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to use your creative gifts.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might even want to build a part-time or a full-time business with your writing.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, those are all really exciting goals.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: We all have big dreams and goals when it comes to our writing, and of course, that's a good thing.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: But why is it then that sometimes we feel deflated whenever we think about building a writing habit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, again, as a writer, we know that habits are the bridge to all the things that we want as writers.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Now, of course, marketing, relationships, handling your money wisely, all those kinds of things and a lot more things are vital to our success in writing, but none of it really matters if you're not actually producing the work.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: The problem is that whenever we think about writing habits, habits aren't just very exciting when you really just sit down and think about it.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: Because we think of a habit as something we have to do rather than something that we get to do, rather than something that leads us to everything else that we actually want as writers.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why over the next couple of weeks, we're going to dust the cobwebs off of this concept of building a writing habit.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: And rather than being something that's dry and dusty, a writing habit can absolutely change your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it can also, by the way, be something that's really, really exciting.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Because whenever you think of a writing habit as an adventure where you're going out into the unknown to accomplish great things, it takes on a whole new meaning.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know, as creative people, we naturally tend to resist routines, but we have to think of writing as a blue-collar job, just like carpentry is or plumbing or any other kind of job that requires regular, sustained labor.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: The truth is that you and I are no different.
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  SPEAKER_00: This means that the more we can get into a routine with our writing, the more we can think of it as a quote unquote blue-collar job where we show up and we do the work, the more we're actually going to get done.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Without a writing habit, you're never going to get that blog built.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: You'll never finish that book that you've been thinking about all these years, and you'll certainly never build a successful writing business.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, a great writing habit is the pathway to everything that you've ever dreamed about as a writer.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's question: How could a writing habit help you achieve your dreams as a writer?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Today's episode is an excerpt, by the way, from our free ebook, How to Build a Writing Habit.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: You can get this for free along with six other ebooks on writing as part of our free Daily Writer Starter Kit.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Just go to dailywriterlife.comslash free to grab that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow.