Don't Multitasking

When you’ve got anxiety (or you’re someone who’s grown up/lived around the Internet for a while), focus can be really  hard. Fortunately, your brain CAN be trained.

You have to make a conscious effort to make the change. This means: 

1. Se...

The key to avoiding anxiety is to make sure it stays a passion and doesn’t become a chore.

• Where does your mind go in boring meetings? (stop multitasking, though!)
• If you had to write every single day for the rest of your life, how could you make that feel like a reward?

How do you keep writing when you have anxiety? When you feel like you’re just barely making it through your life? Like the whole thing is one big blur of “If I could just finish this one thing, then…” ?

By experimenting and learning from others, I found 5 things that really helped...

Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’re constantly working on your novel, thinking about your novel, or doing other things so you can write your novel…but you never seem to make any progress. 

You’re exhausted. And you’re not getting anywhere.

When you write, only write, and ...