The War of Art

  Strategy Number Five:  Organization and Structure This is the last of a six-part post series on defeating resistance (with a small “r”).  To start at the beginning of the series, click here. Let’s get straight into the organization and structure hacks that will help you sit down and write when you say you want to, […]

  Strategy Number Four: Motivation Hacks   In the past few weeks we have looked at your mindset, the trick of just starting and adjusting your environment to induce you to sit down to write. Ultimately, there comes a point where you make a decision to write…or not.  Before you even reach that decision point, though, there

  Strategy Number Three: Environment.   How did you go with just starting? In part four of our series on defeating resistance, this week I’m looking at the environment where you write. Sometimes, you have no control over the physical environment in which you write. The local coffee shop is going to be noisy, although there

  Strategy Number Two: Just Start.   Last week we looked at some of the mental blocks that help resistance get a foothold in your brain. When resistance is at its most active, though, is the few moments before you sit down and start writing, to about twenty minutes after you have “started” (if you actually