8 Tips to Kickstart Your Writing

Back to school. Back to work.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t take summers off. I might not have the same writing output during the summer months, but I’m still around. Anytime I slip away, I schedule posts to publish while I am gone, but places that require a real-time presence slip a bit. While my established clients are okay with that, they will ultimately only stay my clients if I come home and return to work at some point. The fact is, social media never takes a holiday and one’s social media presence need to stay active if it is to remain viable.  If pages aren’t active, then engagement and reach diminishes, which could equate to a potential downturn in sales. Not what most businesses want. Less money coming in usually means cutting costs, first up of which would be me, if I can’t prove my worth. So yes, I still ensure all my clients have a presence, even if my writing thins out over the summer months.

When the kids head back to school, I head back to work fulltime though. And while I crank up my output, I also look to other ways to kickstart even more of more writing. I need to refill my coffers somehow after lazy days, road trips, and epic adventures aplenty. Do you need tips to kickstart your writing too? Don’t we all? Let’s explore a few ways we can add more writing to our days. How do you do that? More importantly, how do you do that and get paid?

Tips to Kickstart Your Writing

• submit queries to journals, magazines, and newspapers
• write poetry, short stories, creative nonfiction pieces to submit to contests
• join a networking group to meet new people/potential clients
• finish editing my book (or other WIP) to get it ready for publication
• take another writing class to finish my Creative Writing certificate program (check with your local library, community college, or city to see what writing courses might be out there for you)
• contact previous potential clients to reconnect and see how their social media platforms are holding up
• ask other writers (or current clients!) if they can connect me with new people, businesses, magazines, publishers, etc.
• advertise services;
  • via blog, Facebook page, on Twitter, LinkedIn, etc
  • create a website outlining services
  • once other social media links are updated and in place, share links to them on other platforms

Note that YOU can do any of these things as well. This is about motivating me today, but I hope to motivate any other writers out there who might need the kick in the pants that I do. Of course if you are looking for someone to write blog posts, magazine articles, schedule Facebook updates, tweet or any number of other tasks, contact me today! I’m sure we can figure something out. Until then…

Happy writing!