Do what?
Write!
Oh yeah. Write...
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Every day. You should write every day. It doesn't really matter if it's only a sentence or if you have an epiphany and write an entire chapter in one sitting. Writing regularly assures that you don't lose your touch.
What do I mean by 'losing your touch'?
If you've ever played a musical instrument, painted pictures, ridden a bike...really any acquired faculty, you know that you may never forget how to do it, but if you go a long time without practicing, you get rusty.
It's a fact of nature. Metal rusts. So does brain tissue, apparently.
But sometimes it's tough to find time to write! This, of course, is a given. If you're a human being living in the world, you have a lot of demands on your time. This also seems to be a fact of nature. Bees are busy. So are people.
I'm afraid I don't have any tips on finding time to write. Even I go a day or two without writing sometimes (shame on me!). But I would strongly encourage, if there is any seriousness in your desire to write and create, to write some every day. I find that I'm able to sneak in some before I go to bed at night.
But now I'm thinking...if I have time to write this blog, surely I have time to write in my story!
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Oh yeah...
Well then, with that, I'll quickly sum up. What I'm trying to say is that it's important to make progress on your story on a regular basis. This helps keep the juices flowing in your noggin, and it's easier to remember details of your story that you might forget otherwise (on that note, I try to keep a notebook filled with those kinds of minutiae that I might forget in case of emergency).
..::WORD of the DAY::..
Torpor - [tawr per] [noun]
1.) lacking in vitality or interest
2.) a state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility
3.) lethargy; apathy
Example: Hardly awake, the waitress drifted idly from table to table, trying to suppress her obvious torpor.
May your quills always be inspired,
J Cole
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