Writing

What Successful Writers Do That Other Ones Don’t Have the Guts to Do

Being a writer isn’t easy. The successful ones go the extra mile that other writers are too soft to even try. Check it out.

Gallons of Coffee

Real writer drink coffee by gallon, pot after pot. If you can’t drink enough coffee to stay awake a week or two to finish that novel, you aren’t a real writer.

Creative Thinking

What’s that? You don’t think you are a creative thinker? Most writers aren’t. But even the best have to call on the deepest recesses of their mind sometimes to find the muse. Successful writers know how to put themselves in a trance through total concentration, a dark trance that binds itself to their nightmares, thus tapping a deep vein of creativity.

Massive Action

When it comes right down to it, real writers never have “writer’s block.” They laugh at part-time hacks who stare at their computer screen, trembling from the fear of not knowing what to write. Are you kidding? Real writers know the muse visits AFTER they start to create. One top writer wrote “knit one, purl two” 4,789 times across the screen until the words came flowing forth. The result was a top-selling novel and award-winning mini-series on the Knitting Channel.

Joe Ditzel

Joe Ditzel is a keynote speaker, humor writer, and really bad golfer. You can reach him via email at [email protected] as well as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn.