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I didn’t want to write yesterday’s blog post

This is the only reason it happened.

David Gane
David Gane

I was tired. I had a bit of a headache. I wanted to go to bed.

But I still did it.

The only reason it happened was I’d been writing daily for almost seven months. I hated to break the habit knowingly (I recently missed two days because I realized it the next day).

Commit yourself to something you want to do long enough; eventually, it will pay off. It will give you that little oomph to open the document and write something down.

It may not seem like a lot, but it’s all I needed to get my blog post written yesterday.

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Co-writer of the Shepherd and Wolfe young adult mysteries, the internationally award-winning series, and teacher of storytelling and screenwriting.

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