Great ideas!

Thank you for these very helpful ideas!

1. create a deadline by telling a friend that I’ll complete my first draft, or revision of chapter one, or recording-and-listening, or whatever next milestone, by the time we see one another in our next scheduled Zoom writers’ meeting.

2. for a few days or a few weeks at a time (when I have the strongest need to keep myself going), make daily entries in a “Hope Journal.” This is a notebook I love (smaller than the palm of my hand, bound, artisanal, whimsical), in which each entry includes the date and what I got done since the previous entry. It could be how much I wrote, or factual research, or choosing character names, or making or even only articulating major decisions about character behavior in one scene or plot points–any progress! The self-imposed need to report daily progress makes me do something about it!

I hope these tips help you and other fellow writers.