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Are you heading for writing burnout? When you make money writing, there’s a big danger that your creative well will run dry, resulting in writer’s block. Let’s look at how you can develop your creativity so you never run out of things to write about, develop high productivity, and increase your income.

“Have fun” seems simplistic. After all, you have clients who depend on you, and projects you must complete — you have a mortgage to pay. What’s fun got to do with it?

Fun has a great deal to do with it. Think about a time when you were intensely  creative. For most of us, that time of high creativity ended when we were around eight years old. Would you like that childlike glee with your writing back again? Little kids are never blocked and rarely stressed. They love to play, and that’s the secret.

Here are three tips which will help you to look on your for-pay writing as fun.

1. Write for Yourself First, then for Others

In 30 years of writing, I’ve learned that my inner kid can turn off my creativity like a tap when it gets bored. The kid doesn’t care about deadlines and money, the kid just wants to have fun.

Think about when you first started writing: try to recapture that excitement. Feel it. Now complete this sentence (write it down): “To really have FUN with my writing, I’d like to write__________ and ____________ and ___________”. Keep writing. You may be surprised at what you’d love to write, just for fun.

Your “fun” writing primes the pump for all your other writing. It’s your warm glow within. When that warm glow dies, all your writing dies. So keep that warm glow alive.

2. Develop a No-Stress Writing Schedule: Get Help when You Need It

Your primary goal as a writer who’s writing for profit should be to keep your writing schedule as stress-free as possible. If there things you could pay others to do, pay them.

For example, a virtual assistant could help you with your email, and the many other housekeeping chores of your writing business. She or he could also do basic research for you, freeing up time for you to write. If you hate marketing, you can also out-source some of those tasks.

If you’re just starting out as a “for pay” writer, you may only be making $60 an hour. However, you can get a virtual assistant for $30 an hour. If you take the plunge and delegate stress-inducing tasks, you’ll be amazed at how much more you get done… and that your income goes up.

3. Shush! Stay Silent on Gestating Projects

Have many projects have you talked away? Think about it.

Gestating projects, those projects which are so new they’re just a glimmer in your eye, are delicate. You can ruin them completely if you talk about them with anyone, even your nearest and dearest. Keep all projects strictly under wraps until you’ve completed at least a first draft, or if it’s a Web site, until you have the site online.

I hope these three tips help you. They come from experience. To build your career and making money writing, remember to have fun: it’s vital. Here’s how to become prolific and write more.

Write more – become a pro writer

Yes, you can write more and become an expert writer - even if you’re a world-class procrastinator.

Did you know that when you write more, your writing improves? Many of my writing students experience this. They find that when they write more, writing is easier for them – they’re not dominated by their inner editor.

My new writing class, “Write More And Make More Money From Your Writing: Develop A Fast, Fun Productive Writing Process” is based on lessons I developed for my private coaching students to help them to write more, improve their writing, and make more money writing.

If you’re struggling with your writing, the class will help. The techniques you’ll learn in class with help you write fiction, nonfiction, and copy for business.

Discover how you can write more, improve your writing, and sell more of your writing to higher-paying markets.

Here’s the secret to great creativity and eliminating writer’s block for good: have fun with your writing.

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