You’ll find that by just writing all in one shot, you… I whined. But responding was not something I enjoyed. But since I love being free more than I wish to honor my excuses, here I am in Jimbaran, Bali. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I know, it’s pretty sweet. Silence is the great healer. Sure, we can write a 2,000-word feature in Good Housekeeping, but we cannot write a full cover story of 10,000 words. 1. Bill Megelich I have on a few occasions. With the right work ethic, you can write 10,000 words in less than 12 hours. In this post I’ll explain how I plan on creating that much content in one day, and provide some tips to help you create content in bulk. Sitting in silence let me release yet another damaging, wicked idea, so that I could get to writing a ton more words daily and yes, on some of those days I write 10,000 words. He was a Dutch finance guy who lived on some exotic, tropical, fabulous island called “Phuket” in Thailand. ( Log Out /  I had just been fired from my security guard job. By doing one, typed, polished page per day. There is no time to read 10,000 words, and there is definitely no time to write 10,000 words. Mental science: meditate, do subliminal hypnotherapy, and just commit to spending time in quiet to face, embrace and release thoughts and feelings. Ain’t gonna happen. Distraction is a productivity killer. That’s how this post works. This has actually challenged me to take on bigger works. With my first book The 7 Day Startup, I released virtually all of the book in blog posts and podcast interviews before I published the book. Keep writing. There’s nothing like a woman who flits about, from one task to the next. The deal is guys, writing 10,000 words a day – on any day – frees me and it frees you. When you write, just write. Of course children and housework take lots of time but when you realize that you have a life of your own itś more easy to tell yourself: Today is my time, This moment or this Day is only for me. About 600 words on Monday, 4,000 to 5,000 words on Wednesday, and super short Friday and Sunday posts because most of my writing is being done on Amazon these days. Don’t ruin your efforts by not keeping up the pace. You’ll also, Take for example my weekly eBook publishing bit. Then, you spend most of your day commenting on blogs, responding to every comment on your blog, emailing folks, and Bsing on social media. As part of my upcoming book Content Machine, I’ve started a Facebook group where I’m doing a weekly challenge. Since I am cyborg-like but haven’t made the much awaited quantum leap yet – to being a robot with a fully functioning, human exoskeleton – I do the 10 K word bit not as often. This is what I’ve done to limit distractions: If you really struggle with distractions, check out a tool like Rescue Time to work out where your time is going. I’ve talked before about how I don’t write every day. That means, I like ham, in bahasa Indonesian. If I have access to a reviewer for that site, I will get them to help. If so how do you prevent it, any plugin or anything you can recommend? Not hitting those numbers these days Nikita as I’m deep in the jungle. Related: Podcast interview on idea generation with James Schramko. How can you expect to churn out some serious writing volume from an inspired space unless you take care of your mind and bod? lol. Omg … I’m at (3). Yesterday in Bali the villa gardener – I call him Fab 5 Freddy, aka, Freddy from Flores (one island where Komodo Dragons live, close to Bali) – asked me if I liked coconut water, after we chatted for some 30 minutes. Ditto on LinkedIn. I could be silly in front of my 4 closest friends but struggled to the tune of 2,700, I have written 2,000 to 10,000 words every day for….I’ve lost count. OK I have hit 10 K a day a BUNCH because I spend at least 30 to 60 minutes daily in silence. Back to the post…..I have always been a ham but it took some work for me to get comfortable being a ham for the world. When the ideas came, I put them into Trello and late last night organized them into a list to do today, a secondary list if I can’t execute on any of the main ones and a 3rd backup list. Even if you think nothing you create will ever be good. I'll close by addressing another common objection I received many times since announcing my plan to write 100,000 words in a day. I am a blogger. Each page has about 350 words. You are choosing to imprison yourself, with these ideas, and if you sit regularly in silence you will face, embrace and release these limiters, to create a pretty epic life. It also depends on your stage in an academic career. On the flip side I have seen legions of bloggers and authors run into all types of problems when they sit down to write. I wish I could Love this post too. Were they not? I have teens, homeschooled teens. I guess genre writers don’t count. Of course, I am not comparing writing 10,000 words in a day to scaling a 30 foot high coconut tree without a harness. We don’t need to waste 10,000 words when one four-letter word can sum him up perfectly. I know I said that this would be 10 points and 700 words, but I’ve been writing this at my kitchen island while my three kids, two cats, and a dog all begged for snacks and entertainment. Also in writing the first few chapters of Content Machine, I jammed out 12,000 words on a 6.5 hour flight between the Gold Coast and Singapore last year. Hey! No charging laptops. And this is why I am shocked and thrilled that I have discovered a way to write 5000 words a day nonetheless, while I still manage to waste time, and I am about to tell you how you can do the same thing. As the wise Mark Twain once said, “write what you know,” and what I know is why I cannot write 10,000 words. 3 to 6 K words a day, is OK. Haha. I remember the most I’ve written in a day was 4500 and it was for two “How to” tutorials. This really helped me commit to the book and have a big head start towards a pretty daunting goal of 30,000 or so words for a book. You seem to be doing awesome Saqib. Idea generation is not something I struggle with like some people do. I’d love to read more of your work . Sure, the practice make me more confident in writing. Bonus tip: invest in Boes Noise Cancelling Headphones. This is a great post that not only explains the idea behind consistent blogging, but also bring to light the secret to writing new ideas daily. Where you might have a problem is deciding which words to write. It is important to fill quotas, and I don’t think it’s right for men to dominate with their 10,000 words without a little bit of a challenge. I’m certain I couldn’t write 10,000 words without practice. I could not write 300 words in one sitting. If only we spent less time talking, we could have the gumption to write long-winded stories like white men can. I do get that you need to network. I probably should count the numbers to see how many words I write, but so far I just set aside enough time to write (and I listen to Focus@Will while writing). Women invented multitasking, but when we need to get down and write we do it, like everything else. It’s a waste, because you’ll be blind to each other tip unless you choose to do the freeing thing over the comfortable thing. ( Log Out /  That means, I like ham, in bahasa Indonesian. Tbh I’ve never measured how much I write daily in words, I’ve been focussing on complete tasks instead, as in write one post or write two chapters. I’m not even close to it. I do write 10,000 words more than a few times weekly but am aggressively promoting my eBooks these days. I have on a few occasions. Sending all positive vibes to you. No electricity. Now….on to…..the rest of the story. Made a funny. Have a few minutes away from the computer. People take days off all the time right? Expecting a woman to stay focused for an entire 10,000 words on a single story is an impossible expectation. Day 5: Write 1,000 words. I do quite a bit of networking. I have 7 siblings so our house was very busy. Practicing writing every day makes it a lot easier. Time. […] via Ten Reasons Why Women Writers Can’t Write 10,000 Words, Written by a Woman Writer — BREVITY̵… […]. 10 K!!!! Luckily, there was that one woman who wrote a cover story that one time, and so now thankfully we can say that we’ve already done it. The site owner benefits financially through links or images you click on this site. More people to call me out for burning up the keyboard, instead of pitching to the latest startup gurus who walk in the door. So music sometimes is my distraction from distraction. I was able to quickly come up with a bunch of ideas for today’s challenge throughout the week just by asking my network on social media and jotting a few down myself as I thought of them. Today I’ll be creating content for 4 different sites, each has their own processes (which I created). (Somewhat) Daily News from the World of Literary Nonfiction, Last week Jeffrey Goldberg, mansplainer-in-chief at The Atlantic, wrote an article appearing to suggest that women can’t write 10,000 words. Hi dear, I am sure a woman can write 10,000 words and more. Kill it or tame it, if you can. More power to you! Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Yes I am a woman. Have you noticed something recently here on Blogging from Paradise? 10,000 Words Per Day In Just 5 Not So Easy Steps On any normal day I would spend most of my day skipping between Slack, Helloify, Facebook, Twitter, Email in the non stop cycle of productivity purgatory. (and a quality one takes about the same amount of time) It is necessary to work every day to polish your craft. Felt like 10,000 words when I was writing it. I have to create all of the content myself. Snap! Don’t Edit as you Write. Practice writing by scaling down ANY activity online that’s not related directly to writing. I get so much lately it’s driving me crazy so any assistance is very much appreciated. Take for example my weekly eBook publishing bit. Great post here that I think will really help people overcome their writing difficulties no matter how much content they are looking to produce for their blog and other pursuits. Like, I’m just getting started son! Dale that’s a timely comment! I was on a retreat in the Philippines and I worked a 16 hour day so I kind of cheated ha. Haha! So is the 10 K a day disclosure. The other thing I know that drives me is hitting the publish button. We adopted an older boy. Always a pleasure reading your thoughts Ryan – I look forward to seeing new posts in my feed. This does not mean you have to publish a blog post every other day because doing this in itself has been proven to negatively affect your blog in a way. Being a full time writer – I have those painstaking deadlines to work on and even when I spare a few minutes for myself I see to it that I write at the most 3K words a day. I have on a few occasions. One thing I can say is that I have found myself able to write more and more words the more I write. After sitting in quiet each day, I eventually decided to embrace the idea fully. Others dictate to their phone and find that a more productive way of doing it. Again, let’s return to the deal here; I was up for virtually 24 hours, spending 6 of those hours on a plane, yesterday, and I will get in my 3 K or more words daily today. The lower self dissolves and the higher self emerges in silence because you will see all that wicked self talk, that you cling to, that holds you back. Well, Rachel says she can, with three conditions: 1) Know what you are going to write before you write it 2) Set aside a protected time to write, and 3) Feel enthusiastic about what you are writing. Day 1: Write 500 words. It’s so easy to sit at your computer all day writing and it’s midnight before you know it! These three weeks needed some hard work. You see it first hand, the body and mind bit And you adopt it yourself you writing machine you. Note again, this life, it does not suck. Nice post Ryan! As within so without. Pardon me if l seem stupid. There’s nothing like chick lit and a hot bubble bath to relax us after a long day of balancing it all. Just loading my blog post for tomorrow – Sunday, Bali time – explaining that my epic posts are no more and I’ll be doing the eBook thing exclusively Thanks and keep on snapping those AWESOME photos! For a long, long time. You need not live in a Bali villa to find a quiet, silent spot. Me: I get a ton of emails, comments and social chats pointing to the fact that no way, no way in hell, that most bloggers can write 1,000 words or more, daily. Ditto on 7,000 word posts. I spend more time daily devoted to writing books. For you, the freeing driver may be leaving your 9-5 job or being free to make as much money as you want to, or perhaps you want to keep freeing other people as you free yourself in the process. I found the task impossible until I sat with it, in silence. Women can’t write long features because we’re so busy talking. From the beginning, I thought it was going to be a sarcastic one. No, not a real ham. Your awesome achievements, blogging-wise, happen outside of your comfort zone.”. The quote found below really resonates with me, and it’s something that would truly make everyone much more successful in life: “You won’t grow in your comfort zone. Not even a word a minute. Week 4 and above. Love your comment about keeping your mind and body healthy. You’ll appear to be unstoppable but in truth, you’re just clearing out the mental garbage that most writers never take the time to clear out. Ditto for a blog post chunk. Is literacy dying? However, as I read on, I found some points to be rather true. He noted how writing daily formed a habit in him which led to some fairly popular novels which turned into some fairly popular movies. Hey Ryan…love the tips. But some dreams are just too big and insurmountable. Even if you think your writing belongs at the bottom of a garbage heap. It’s number 3 above that generally stops me. He casually walked outside of the studio area, climbed 30 feet straight up one of the many coconut trees in the jungle, on the villa grounds – without a freaking harness or ANYTHING to prevent him from dying, should he mess up – and plucked 2 suckers…..then he calmly climbed back down to the ground, hacked ’em both, and we enjoyed fresh coconut juice together. Or, in a Word Doc, which I format for Amazon, and which I upload to Kindle. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2016/06/28/business-owners-residents-angry-with-garlands-bass-pro-shops-for-lake-ray-hubbard-boat-docks-in-disrepair, A Review of Impossible Owls, Through the Lens of an Impossible Paradigm | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog, Ten Reasons Why Women Writers Can’t Write 10,000 Words, Written by a Woman Writer — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog | Novel Writing Festival. Kind of ideal. Blogging is quite demanding and you can only stay relevant if your readers are able to grab new informative content once in a while. Excuses abound. It is freeing…..BUT….I was up at 8:30 today, after 6 hour’s of sleep, after being up for 24 hours, networking, writing, and killing it online. Now I can write 10,000 words in a day. Because when you are not distracted at all you won’t stop writing and if you don’t stop writing you will easily write 1,000 to 2,000 words an hour. © 2020 Blogging From Paradise created by Ryan Biddulph and designed by Phill Dews. As I mentioned earlier, I don’t write 10,000 words every single day … (I can’t help but read such moments in light of why men are more often solicited for intensive field-research […]. I’m not close to 10k a day, but I do write every single day. This post is a guideline, a foundation, for writing 10,000 words a day. Now, go write that 10,000 word essay! Hell, you may be doing all those things right! Seriously? I’m tethering my phone today because I do need the internet but I’ll be less likely to waste my exorbitant Optus download fees on Buzzfeed GIFs. Silence is the great healer. Turned the idea over in my mind a few times. My feelings are so deep, an ocean can barely contain all the feelings I have, about all the things. Great job writing what you know! 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