Writing Machine: 3 Ways to Train Your Brain to Write More Every Day

 

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Chapter 1

Writing can be difficult at times. Sometimes you can find yourselves with writer's block, gazing into the distance and asking yourself “what am I supposed to write?”, or “are these ideas good enough?” If you can’t manage these feelings then things could start to get out of control, but it’s common. 

 

However, one need not despair at times like these. There are many things that one can do to get their creative juices flowing and to stimulate their writing, bringing them to write to the best of their ability. If you’ve ever found yourself at a time of poor writing progress, fortunately, we’ve combined six of the best ways that one can train the brain to write more every day.

Free Writing

 

The fear of making mistakes in writing or writing in a less professional manner can often have the ability to stop off from writing in the first place. In order to exercise your writing ability then one can give free writing a go, warming up those writing synapses and kick-starting various creative thought processes.

 

Free writing involves writing in a simple manner, not necessarily paying attention to punctuation, style or even grammar. The point is to write what comes to mind. If there isn’t anything there, write about how there’s a void and articulate the nothingness. At the end of your free writing session, you can repeat the most interesting phrases, patterns or ideas in many other writing sessions.

Writing To A Stopwatch

This is more or less free writing, however, if you time yourself and give yourself a strict boundary of how long you’re prepared to write, you can find that this limitation breeds creativity. You may have all the tools to write and the skills to do it, but there are often things that will come in the way. Perfection, or striving to achieve this, can sometimes act as a large constraint, however, if you limit your time then you will find yourself putting fewer constraints on your writing and, therefore, writing as well as you can.

Groups

Joining a group of other writers can help build those writing synapses. Forming connections with informal groups give people new ideas, technique, and form – it’s a way of helping to develop your craft by learning from what others are doing. Often posts of groups create different activities that are stimulating and engaging to you as a writer, helping new exercise writing ability and there are many different writing groups all over the place, from online groups to groups at colleges, libraries or formal writing associations. Sometimes if you’re stuck you could always visit websites like https://www.custom-writings.net to help out, whilst also attending a group to get further ideas.

 

If you are somewhat apprehensive about joining a group, you could always start your own. Bring your friends and acquaintances along with you, as long as they are keen to write to. Everybody can grow together and improve their writing skills. You’ll be surprised how easy in this day and age it is to come up with a group – one need only have a Skype account or some other video conferencing, and you can even start a group with people you’ve never met.

 

So, whatever you love writing about, remember that when you’re in a dark corner or facing a writer's block wall to climb over, there are ways to get you over. Branch out and consider different types of writing techniques and styles, changing your methods and approaches to writing. Remember that any constraints and limitations can breed creativity, so chin up and get writing!

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