Exercise your writing muscles

Friday, April 17th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

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Just came back from my first trip to the golf course. Went ot the driving range and hit a large bucket of balls. I now hurt – badly.

See it has been a long snowy winter here in Pennsylvania and the weather has finally changed. Usually enjoy the exercise I get from going out to golf but the first couple of times each season I find pains in places I didn’t know I have.

Another week or two and it will feel good to get the exercise as my muscles that have not been used over the course of the winter get back in shape. The muscle memory will start to come back and I will hit the ball better. (Notice the use of words better not good).

This is something that I knew would happen and I know that I need to go through it to be able to enjoy my time out on the golf course.

Writing causes the same thing. When I first started wring a blog 5 years ago it was often painful to try and come up with a topic. Create a post and get it formatted the way I wanted and finally hit the publish button.

Not quite the same pain as I am feeling in my muscles but a pain none the less. Part of that was the striving for perfection we discussed yesterday.

If you find writing painful and we all do at times you need to just do it. If you are in the perfection mode go create a blogger blog and make it private. Go post every day for 20 minutes about anything there for 2 weeks.

No one will see it and you can delete it when you are done but if you actually exercise your writing muscles they will get stronger. Will it be painful? Probably will but it won’t take long for you to get in “writing shape”.

Take the time to exercise your writing muscles and you will be surprised how much easier it will become to write your blog regularly.

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold