6 mindsets to accelerate your progress as a writer

Do you ever wallow over an empty screen or paper ? Do you just stare at them for five minutes, whine and drop the business ? Do you sign up to write once in a blue moon and decide that you will never be enough ? 

These questions are most likely to answer the healthy/unhealthy mindsets that your inner writer is possibly cradling. No, there is nothing wrong with the frustration of dumping thousands of the drafts or coming across rejections daily. It is not about failing to come up with anything. It is rather a deal of your mindset as a writer. The way you tackle what you have just been dropped into, is what determines your future as a writer.

If you are intended to become a good writer, there are several ways that you must bucket and bathe yourself in to be skilled. But everything starts and ends on your mindset. In this article you will read about 6 mindsets to develop to become a good writer. 

 1.     Practice, practice and practice. 

Writing is a skill and any skill in the world cannot break a leg if not honed regularly. Writing includes multiple frames, dimensions and edits. You cannot master every step in one go. To become a good writer, you must ensure that your schedule is ready to take up the gear on a regular batch. Practising it daily will help you develop a critical perspective and a large room for improvement. 

 2.     Being adaptive of others’ perspectives

Remember, the world is not waiting for you to come up with a subject and put forth your expression. People want to read what they cannot find words for. If you want to mark your name as a writer then try reaching out to the readers’ mindset. Enlist the ways that you can incorporate in connecting to them.

 3.     Exploring out of your realm 

A good writer should always keep his head up for a new wave. While it may sound victorious of you to conquer a niche, you should always be prepared for the uncertainty. Just because you are a maestro of technical writing does not necessarily declare you to be its wingman. Try creative writing. Read about it. Learn about the   opportunities it can serve you with. Do not be in a rut, break it and be diverse. 

 4.     Being kind to criticism 

A big reminder to all the writers out there. Criticism is a friend in disguise. It is the strangest hack to build a grip on your writing skills and cut off the loose ends. Do not let your ego or fear of embarrassment stamp you way out from the 

work. In writing, there may appear multiple situations where you get red marks and often, NO(s) but don’t react. Learn to fix the issues from a different perspective. 

 5.     Unfriending the comparison

Wherever there is art, there shall be no place for comparison. Comparison is a red alert for an evolution as a writer. Your drafts needs edits, not toxicity. When you are writing, it is your abstracted, wilted imaginations that you cut through to convert them into words. You have got your own set of words to give life to. Nobody knows about it. So do not rub your head with insecurities and be more confident in your own writing skills. 

 6.     Commitment 

There will come one phase or more, when your flair will be blocked. You will bring the hammers from all around the world and it still won’t demolish. That stubborn phase is called ‘writer’s block’, something to never, ever be let down by. It is that unwanted, clingy guest in your house and it has go, later or later. Instead of sitting idle or totally giving up, seek encouragement. Try writing the unusual way, opt for the prompts. But don’t give up. 

Write!