{"id":185,"date":"2017-08-14T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyricwell.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2024-11-16T20:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T01:57:04","slug":"start-with-a-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyricwell.com\/blog\/start-with-a-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Start With a Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lyricwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/StartWithAHabit.png\" alt=\"Start With a Habit\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lyricwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/StartWithAHabit.png 560w, https:\/\/lyricwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/StartWithAHabit-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It can be daunting to think about writing as big as an album or as small as a song. Even if you don&#8217;t have any ideas, you can start with a habit. Develop a habit of writing on a daily basis and don&#8217;t worry what you&#8217;re writing about.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Start<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to dream about writing for an hour or two (or more) a day, but that&#8217;s probably not realistic if you&#8217;re starting from nothing. Start with a small amount of time, like five or ten minutes. If your goal is to write for an hour a day, it&#8217;s easy to say &#8220;I just don&#8217;t have time today.&#8221; If it&#8217;s ten minutes, it&#8217;s a lot easier to put off the less important things since it&#8217;s just ten minutes. And even if you&#8217;re not feeling it that day, you can do it, because <strong>it&#8217;s just ten minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Set a timer for ten minutes every day and write about anything, the ideas will come. When they do, you may find yourself writing for longer than that ten minutes. You don&#8217;t have to go more than ten minutes if you don&#8217;t want to. It can actually be beneficial to stop before you&#8217;ve run out of ideas. If you stop before you&#8217;re out of ideas you&#8217;ll have a great place to start the next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be daunting to think about writing as big as an album or as small as a song. Even if you don&#8217;t have any ideas, you can start with a habit. 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