Why You Need To Establish A Daily Ritual If You Want To Be A Good Writer.

Naomi Sturrock-Whitehead
4 min readJul 30, 2021
Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash

A daily writing practice, although helpful, is only one of the keys to being a good writer.

I have set intentions to write daily in the past, and I have failed miserably. With all the will in the world, I have found myself sitting down, determined to write and then….nothing.

When I say nothing, I don't mean I have writer's block; instead, I find myself not having anything of relevance to say, or so I think.

The negative internal dialogue I subject myself to daily is real. Changing the way I think has been one of the hardest challenges in my life. I can talk a good talk; walking my talk, however, is a completely different matter.

Once I discovered that I needed action in my life to move me forward, my writing has become so much easier.

The process of writing is so different for each individual; I found myself reading extensively on how to become a better writer. what I was slow to learn is that if I have a daily ritual before writing, the words flow onto the page so much easier and faster.

Having a day job and running a house takes up some of my time, so whenever I thought about writing, the time factor always crept in. Do I really have enough time to write? How can I squeeze everything into my…

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Naomi Sturrock-Whitehead

Learning how to play the game of life and making it worthwhile.