Part two of a two-part series. Here we go!
5. Routine is really, really important.
I’m still learning this one, and it’s really difficult. But a lot of what I did over the school year was get my homework done the night before or the hours before class, and turn in a story that I had just barely written. That’s not that good of a plan, really, so I started figuring out a way to better myself and my craft.
Enter The Artist’s Way, and also, sheer determination to be able to beat my mom in an arm wrestle. (She’s 54 and the strongest woman alive, probably. Don’t mess with her, or me, or my brothers, is what I’m saying.)
What I do now is wake up and immediately free-write three pages. It doesn’t have to be good; in fact, usually it’s shit. But the point…
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