51. How to Make Yourself Want to Write More

For all writers (especially first-time authors), the desire to write competes with the desire not to write.

This often looks like a short period of time where you write consistently, immediately followed by a long period where you find yourself not writing as much as you want to be.

In your head, you find yourself thinking thoughts like,

• "I work better in the morning; I’m just going to rest tonight instead.”
• “I had a long day, and I want to relax.”
• "I worked all day; I want a break."

So you take a break instead of writing.

It feels great in the moment, but afterwards, you berate yourself for it. You end up feeling miserable, and you're angry at yourself for giving in.

What’s actually going on here is that not that you don’t want the book badly enough or that you don’t have a good enough reason to write, it’s that you have competing desires.

But the more you push against your desires, the more you are creating a combative relationship with yourself. You will never get to the finished novel in this kind of relationship – because it’s forced and miserable.

In this podcast and blog, learn why the fastest way to get that finished novel is by loving that part of yourself that doesn’t want to write.

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