Step-by-Step Roadmap For Beginner Writers🚶‍♀️

1} Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

I used to buy fancy notebooks and pens but never really used them because I was afraid of messing them up with my writing. Even though I promised myself I'd save them for later, that later never really came.

👉Buy a cheap spiral notebook and a fountain/ball pen (good grip).🖋

👉On a laptop, use a simple note-making app. (avoid using any editing tools simultaneously like Grammarly)💻

2} Time your writing ⌚

👉Set up a timer for 20 min or 30 min as per your preference.

👉Timing your writing adds pressure and helps to heat things up.

👉Make sure nobody disturbs you during that time.

3} Jot down your first thoughts without judgment.

Sit down with the least expectation of yourself;

say, “I am free to write the worst junk in the world.”

You have to give yourself the space to write a lot without a destination.

Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line)
Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, or grammar.
Don’t think. Don’t get logical.
If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

4} What to write about?

👉Whatever’s in front of you is a good beginning.

👉Try to be present, unafraid, and open, and the situation will give you the subject.

Until then, I have shared some prompts to begin your journey in the post below.

https://www.skool.com/the-ambitious-girls-club-7071/writing-prompts

5} BONUS TIPS:

Don’t “make” your mind do anything. Simply step out of the way and record your thoughts as they roll through you.

Let go of everything when you write, and try at a simple beginning with simple words to express what you have inside. It won’t begin smoothly.

Allow yourself to be awkward. You are stripping yourself. You are exposing your life, not how your ego would like to see you represented.

“Capability is like a water table below the surface of the earth.”

No one owns it, but you can tap it. You tap it with your effort and it will come through you. So just practice writing, and when you learn to trust your voice, direct it.

Don’t stop doing writing practice. It is what keeps you in tune, like a dancer who does warm-ups before dancing.

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