Beginner Writing Tips for Writing Journals, Novels, Manuscripts, Books and Draft Pages for Life Stories
Beginner Writing Tips
for Writing Journals, Novels, Manuscripts, Books…and Drafts Pages for Life Stories
The “Can’t Fail No Stress” Writing Checklist by Daniel David Wallace
Print this checklist out and keep it by your desk.
Before seven days have passed, make sure you check off each box.
If you get them all, add an “x” to the chart at the bottom of the page
GUIDE: Beginner Writing Tips for Writing Journals, Novels, Manuscripts, Books and Draft Pages for Life Stories
Four Things to Write This Week:
1. Sit down and write (at least) one word of your book.
2. Write one more word (on a different day this week).
3. Write one hundred more words (on a third day this week).
4. Write tk twice during this week.*
* tk = “to come.”
You write tk in a draft when think you need to stop writing and do some research or anguished self-doubting: instead of actually stopping, you write tk and promise to come back to it later.
(When the draft is complete, search your document for “tk” and fix
everything in one efficient, comprehensive, low-stress sweep.)
Complete the checklist five times and build a writing routine.
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five