Paula Wiseman, bestselling author at self-publishing company MindStir Media, guest blogged over at the MindStir Media blog recently. Her post, entitled “What running has taught me about writing” succinctly describes the top 5 writing lessons she’s learned from being an active runner.
Here’s an excerpt:
A few years back, determined not to carry post-pregnancy weight with me to the grave I started running. I have never been especially athletic so this was a new adventure. I soon discovered that the things I learned from running I could easily apply to writing.
1. Be patient. Progress comes slowly. Good grief, it took forever to build up any real endurance. In the same way, writing progress, building a reader base, hearing from folks you submitted work to are all slow-moving things requiring tremendous patience.
2. Good habits are critical. Even the bad days count. Some days the best thing I can say about my running is that I got sweaty. However, that habit of getting up out of bed, putting … [CLICK TO CONTINUE READING…]
