Writers ought to have only one response to their cues and cravings: writing!Being a writer requires diverse activities, like promoting your list or pitching agents, but writing is still the most important of all.

Focus On Writing

Many writers use the act of getting out of bed as a cue but yours could be anything. As time passes you will feel less resistance to writing as your brain automatically prepares for writing once the cue is detected.

Use Cues To Trigger Your Writing

Your cue leads to your craving, which leads to a response, that leads to your reward.These rewards can take any form, and as your habit gets more ingrained you develop a craving for the reward too, further developing the habit.

Rewards Are The End Goal Of Habits

Ask yourself what change of state are you seeking from writing. What you crave is not the habit itself but a change, which for a writer is often the sense of accomplishment from being a writer working toward a long-sought-after goal.

Cravings Drive Every Habit

As I'd done for decades, I silenced that voice of hope with a quick and definitive, "Yeah, right. Nobody's even going to read this thing." However, I'd just read Steven Pressfield's The War of Art Spurred to fight Resistance, I wrote my 50,000-word book in six months by waking at 5 a.m.

Rewards Are The End Goal Of Habits

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