How to Write 100 Words a Day

Few days back I have written an article on why one should write 100 words a day.

My intention behind writing the article was getting more people to write without worrying about writers block.

Why You Should Write 100 words?

Most of us who want to write entire book often struggle with motivation. We tell our mind that if the motivation comes I would finish an entire book. And I'd not touch the stuff again as it would get completed in one shot. In reality no such motivation comes and even if it does come you wont get much writing done once you get too much deep.

When you start with 100 words a day, you start some momentum. And this approach would be a good when you want to write something long term or something longer like say book or some project writing.

How to get started?

I have written a lot about why and I have not much covered how. So I think we can get that part done in this article.

1. Make sure to open your text editor or word editor.

2. Set a timer of 30 minutes or pomodro timer.

3. Choose a theme.

4. Make sure keep writing on theme without judging yourself.

5. Once the timer runs out, you can stop writing.

6. Check you have written 100 words, if not go back to writing.

This formula is kind of inspired by the freewriting. However here the randomness needs to be removed and you have to focus on theme. Avoid getting themes from other writers or the people. Instead for your own daily 100 words, make sure to choose your own theme.

Find a Problem

Often we can write a lot about some problem that often come out from social media, news and other sources. More such problems you can get in your hands, you can definitely manage to write on them. So those sort of the problems can tempt you to write more. Make sure to find such problem and then write your 100 words.

What if you can cross more than 100 words?

Keep going. You get into the flow after few sessions of writing like this. And then you don't have to stop yourself. Let your writing extend more than 100 words. Just make sure to only stop when you can't take it anymore.

What if your writing is not appreciated by other people on the web?

You can always publish to the private blogs or the journals. There are plenty of such services which allow you to do just that. As the diary and the journal type of the websites are out there on the web. You can easily make use of them.

A lot of times the criticism goes out of hand. And some turn out to be personal attack. World has changed upside down. So the thing is that people do attack and chase. So you can always write for the people who matter. Ignore the rest and if possible block those users who comment negative.

That's it.

Just get started. Keep writing.