I am presenting this next week-end at the Story Circle Network national writing conference in Austin. The title of my workshop is “How to Improve Your Writing in Just 20 Minutes a Day,” and this workshop was the reason I started my blog several months back. I am looking forward to the conference. I teach online writing classes for Story Circle Network and will hopefully meet many of my students at the conference. Faces to finally go with names!
If any of you bloggers would like to share how blogging has helped your daily writing, please do so in the comments section. Or if you have ideas on how to stay motivated to write every day and/or what difficulties you’ve experienced writing every day, please share. I will definitely use this info to help the participants in my workshop.
With that, I think I’ll head to bed. Good night to all. I definitely hope to hear from you!
20 Minutes a Day 
Hi Len,
Len, I had hoped to be at the conference, but it looks like I won’t be able to attend. You will remember some of the comments I have made in the courses I took from you regarding my blogs. I still consider myself a novice, but maintaining all 3 blogs has given me discipline (I post to each once a week) , diversity (each blog is a different theme), and desire -during a very stressful and over committed season recently, my husband said to me “You know, you don’t HAVE to do the blog posts.” I know he thought he was trying to help me, but my reaction shows just how much this has come to mean to me. I told him, “I know I don’t have to, it is that I WANT to.” I love pairing my writing and photography.
So sorry I won’t meet you yet, Mary Ann, but I definitely will pass on your wise words on writing!
My computer blinked out while I was trying to comment. I just wanted to say that daily blogging gave me a voice, blocked my self-censor a bit and forced me to go deeper into myself for my writing. It’s an excellent tool for writers.
I agree, Pat. I like that succinct answer. So concise and so so true!
I am a fan of ‘free writing’. Put pen to page and just start writing with or without a prompt for 20 minutes. It’s always surprising what develops. Writing everyday keeps the juices flowing. At least these are my two ‘crutches’. Oh, I might add, that for young people and others, I LOVE the 100-word challenge. Seems to be working for the originator and her students.
Thanks, Tess. Yes, I love free writing, too. That will definitely be included in my presentation. The 100 word challenge does also seem to be very helpful. I’ll add that, too! Thanks so much.