# Free Guide: A Consistent Writing System

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- Author: [[Charlotte Grysolle]]
- Full Title: Free Guide: A Consistent Writing System
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://charlottegrysolle.medium.com/free-guide-a-consistent-writing-system-d84d66291fd0

## Highlights
- The hardest part about being an online writer is building a consistent and sustainable writing habit
- Writing one post every few months is easy enough, but how about incorporating daily writing into your life in an enjoyable and productive way? (versus a struggle and constant source of I-should-be-doing-more-guilt!)
- All it takes is a system, a step-by-step framework you can blindly follow when you sit down to write.
- You want to spend your precious energy on writing, not on making decisions or getting distracted by yet another how-to-go-viral guide
- After 10 months of writing online, I’ve cobbled together my own system by cherry-picking the best ideas and concepts from several writing workshops and, yes — how-to-go guides 😉.
- Writing Phases
- The most demoralising thing you can do, especially as a beginner writer, is to start with a blank page and force yourself to publish something that same day.
- now treat writing as a process and break it down into clearly defined phases with distinct tasks and objectives spread over multiple days.
- best writers to start with a Shitty First Draft, and avoid writing and editing simultaneously.
- If you don’t plan your time, someone else will. — Nir Eyal
- Calendar Blocking
- There’s always something more urgent and more important that needs your attention.
- If you want to commit to writing daily, you have to protect that writing time like a lion protects its cubs. Calendar Blocking is the best productivity system I have found to do that.
- WritingLog
- We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience. — John Dewey
- The WritingLog is a simple tracker to reflect after every writing session on what went well, what you can do better next time and the plan for the following days.
- Articles Tracker
- it’s helpful to have a system where you can keep track of the status of each article — depending on the writing phase you’re in.
- By moving it from phase to phase, you’ll ensure that you don’t forget a step — like posting on Twitter, following up with a Publication, or updating the SEO settings.
- Upper/Lower Bound & Habit Tracking
- Forcing yourself to write every day can get overwhelming. You always feel like you haven’t done enough.
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