I'm in the process of writing yet another short book about a particular phenomenon in the human psyche. This, in itself, in wonderful news. I really enjoy writing non-fiction. (I've come to acknowledge that I perhaps suck at the opposite.)
The issue (since there always is one, even for the sake of a WIP article) seems to be that since it's been a while since I last wrote these non-fics, I have fallen off the habit of writing.
Of course, keeping up with WIP is practice in itself. But it's still somehow different from book writing. Maybe it's the interface? Maybe it's the difference in the formality of the language?
Anyway, there are days when I just skip writing the book altogether. Unlike last year, when I published 25 non-fiction books, writing throughout the year: whenever I was working on a book, I wrote daily. And got finished fast.
However! The good news is that I have a hack against this kind of anti-momentum! And the hack is...
Open the document where you left off.
This usually does the trick. And if it doesn't, next you must...
Just write one sentence.
This should get the ball rolling. Well, at least it did with me, five minutes ago, when I opened the document and wrote one sentence and that turned into two whole paragraphs.
Soon enough, I'll have finished the whole book.
RK out (to write "one sentence").
