5 Compelling Benefits of Writing Every Day

Successful athletes reached the level they’re by regularly following a schedule that ensures they’re fit and ready for competitions. They couldn’t have reached a professional level if they hadn’t been practicing consistently over the years.

Similarly, every writer benefits a lot from writing every day. The gains of doing it every day are so huge that you can accomplish a lot from the craft once you instill the habit of being an individual that writes every day.

Being able to always show up and do the tough tasks is a sure way to succeed and stand out from the rest. And this is exactly why writing every day isn’t for everyone because it’s not easy. But if you can do it, then you’re on track to becoming a top-notch writer.

#1. It’d Help You to Inculcate a Writing Habit.

“First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”— Octavia Butler

A daily writing habit is like a reliable system that you can rely on to finish every writing project. It makes the task seem easy to get done because you’ll find yourself doing it without difficulties owing to the habit of writing every day.

For example, some people would sometimes find it challenging to quickly finish a writing task. The idea is there — and probably the work has commenced, but the empty pages are yet to be filled up because there’s no reliable system in place to ensure that writing tasks are completed on time.

It doesn’t matter whether or not you’re going to write an interesting piece each day. Write about whatever you can each day, and save it properly. Someday it might turn out into an interesting piece for your readers.

There’s no saying how far you can go or what you can accomplish through writing once you become a writer that writes every day.

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#2. It’s a Sure Way of Building a Writing Muscle.

The human body needs regular exercise to build and maintain muscle. Being able to write any number of words daily will likewise imbue you with a requisite writing skill that’ll help bring about your latent ability to write thousands of words in one day into manifestation.

All you have to do is to write any number of words you can write each day — and gradually you’d find yourself at the level where you can write an incredible number of words in one day.

You mustn’t publish every day. However, for writers that yearn to publish every day, the key to making it happen is to be an everyday writer. Doing it every day would help you to develop a writing muscle and to have a huge backlog of writings to complete.

And it’s alright if you start with just 100 words or more. Keep at it and watch it increase in the process of time.

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#3. It’d Help You to Capture More Writing Ideas.

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”— Philip José Farmer

Writers can’t exactly say how they manage to come up with some interesting ideas. This is so because it’s not for them to know. But it’s required of them to share what they have. Sharing with people guarantees that you’re going to receive more from life — and nature. Imagination doesn’t shrink if you often put it to use, rather it grows.

Therefore those that write every day will certainly have more to write about because the more you write, the more your imagination expands and capture more ideas for you.

The craft eagerly awaits your full commitment and once you commit, you’d be given loads of ideas to write about. A single idea would lead to many ideas leaving you to select topics to write about.

Like Jim Rohn said, “there’s nothing to be refilled if the cup stays filled up.” Thus you have to pour out what you have in your creative well by writing every day and sharing it with your readers. Thereafter you’d be refilled so that you’ll have more to share.

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#4. It’d Enhance Your Writing Voice

Writers discover their unique writing voice by writing a lot. It’s also through the same process that you can sustain and sharpen your writing voice.

Therefore being able to do it every day ensures that your most powerful tool as a writer is always ready to be put to good use to deliver your posts to your readers in a very engaging manner.

And you mightn’t initially notice that your daily commitment to the craft is gradually enhancing your writing voice. But your readers will notice it because your stories belong to them so they’d be the first to know when it begins to taste better.

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#5. You’d Begin to Treat Your Writing as a Business.

The more you write and publish stories, the more you begin to see the overall benefits of your efforts. You’ll begin to realize that you now treat your writing like a business. You’ve stopped being casual over it by committing a lot of time and effort into it.

Thus it won’t become a business if you don’t treat it as a business. And it won’t begin to look like a business until you begin to make it look like one through consistent daily efforts.

Arriving at this level in your writing journey won’t happen overnight, rather it’ll take time — and daily effort because it’s your daily inputs that’d gradually transform your writing career into a business you’d be very proud of.

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Conclusion

Some days I’d kick off some of my writing tasks from my phone or iPad. I’ll put the ideas down on the notepad later on I’ll transfer them to the laptop.

Doing this every day enables me to always have something to write about whenever I want to write. It also refers me to some writing stuff that I’d have forgotten if I hadn’t written them down when I did.

Writing every day is a habit that guarantees your writing career is taken to any level you aim to reach as a writer. And it doesn’t matter how many words you’re able to write. What matters is to write something down each day.

Those of us that are busy with jobs and other commitments can at least write a paragraph or more each day. You can also commit yourself to writing at least 10 headlines every day. If you can do this every day then you’d have many ideas you can later turn into interesting posts.

Previously published on Medium by the same author.