Holidays like New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas are times to express your gratitude to those who have helped you succeed as a writer. Send a handwritten thank-you note to agents, editors, publishers, book reviewers, mentors, teachers, critique group members and others who’ve assisted you.
The start of a new year is a time to assess what you’ve accomplished as a writer in the past one. Consider the risks you’ve taken that have led to your achieving goals. Think about how your courage, confidence and skill have increased. Reflect on what you’ve learned about life, yourself or others that can enrich your future work. All of these steps can help enlighten your understanding of your growth and worth as a writer.
Determined writers use their time productively to set and achieve goals. They look for publishing opportunities or create them. They seek advice from others and offer theirs when asked for it. They see a challenge as a chance to grow and learn. They bloom wherever they are.
Someone once said that achieving clear writing is a matter of priming the pump.
Water from a faucet that hasn’t been turned on recently can come out cloudy looking at first. The longer it runs, the sooner it becomes clear.
Writing daily can help you express your ideas well and quickly.
Writing is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it is.
The courage to write has to be developed. Work at improving it, do it regularly and submit it for publication. This can help keep the flame of hope for success alive.
In writing, as in any career, why keep doing what you already know how to do? Try something new to develop your creativity. This can enhance your job satisfaction and success.
In the workplace, writing is everybody’s business. All employees can use it to improve their organization’s productivity, image and customer relations.
Literature can save lives. Writers do this by inspiring us to develop the humanity needed to have positive relationships. As a result, we can have a more meaningful existence.
Doing several drafts of your documents can have great benefits. You can improve the quality of them and save yourself time.
Whether you’re composing short or long works, hand write or type several versions of them. This can help you discover your best ideas and how to communicate them effectively.
Your readers will then have a clear view of what you want them to understand.
Jan Kilby, Writing Consultant 