This Writing Game Plan Changes Everything

Novelists, memoirists, bloggers, and essayists, you need a Game Plan.

You really do. Okay, I really do.

I crave structure because I have a chaotic but energetic mind. I don’t want to stop to actually put structure into my life, but I know it’s the only way for me to get things done.

Some of you have already signed up to get the free Writing Game Plan I put together, but have you used it?

It’s a simple tool of 5 prompts you use at the beginning of a project and each time you sit to write. It takes 10 minutes and you’ll get faster as you get used to it.

One prompt asks you to list what you want to accomplish in that session. As in, what is your GOAL for that day’s writing?

If you think: Who has time for that? I know where I’m headed.

I hear you. I see you. I am you.

But let me share the logic behind that one, tiny prompt.

Goals that are written down are 1 and a half times more likely to be accomplished. That means if you think you’re going to write 5 pages in a session or complete a character arc, and you have about a 40% chance of accomplishing that — you’ll have an 80% chance if you write. it. down.