Steemit has really rekindled my love of writing. Being able to get paid for writing about things that interest you and you are passionate about is amazing. However, my increased writing has only been for Steemit. While this is, overall, a positive thing, there are still other projects that I want to get started that have fallen to the wayside.
For instance, for the last month, I have been wanting to write a short ebook on cryptocurrency, but have never got around to it. No matter how much time I have available, I never seem to get started. Maybe you have experienced this phenomenon as well.
So I had to think of a way to get started on this thing once and for all. And then I remembered a book that has been sitting on my Kindle for about a year. It is called The 8-Minute Writing Habit. I went searching for it and found it, sitting there next to the unread biography of Steve Jobs and the partially-read collection of Hemingway short stories.
It was at this point I decided to do something highly unusual. I decided to actually read an entire book that I had paid for. Crazy, I know.
In a nutshell, the book lays out the argument that while we all say that we have no time to write, we all can carve out eight minutes to dedicate to one project. Eight minutes may not seem like enough time to get anything of significance done, but you would be surprised.
Today I decided to give it a try and was pleasantly surprised to see that I had written 215 words in only eight minutes. That is 215 more words than I have written for the project in the entire month since I decided to begin.
Writing for those eight minutes in the morning has also given me some momentum that I have taken with me throughout the day. I have also been thinking about the ebook and have a lot more ideas to add to it. I am actually excited to get back to work on it and that hasn’t happened in quite a while.
The 8-Minute Writing Habit has already paid dividends and I highly recommend it.