Let’s face it. It’s easy to set resolutions and draw up a list of goals for our writing projects, but it’s much more difficult putting in the hard work to achieve them.

At first you might make significant progress towards your goals, but as the weeks pass, your schedule seems to become busier than you expected, your motivation begins to ebb, and those goals begin to look further and further out of reach.

How do you maintain that original interest and energy that motivated you during those initial stages? How do you ensure that you are working productively each day?

Here’s Benjamin Franklin’s solution to this problem: a simple daily schedule that can help you establish an effective writing routine and reach your writing goals.

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Want to supercharge your writing productivity but feel like you struggle to concentrate when you sit down to write?

It can be hard for us writers to find time to write in the first place, but when we finally do manage to carve out those precious hours, it is very frustrating when we can’t stay focused on our writing.

Enter Anthony Trollope.

One of the most successful novelists of the Victorian era, Trollope figured out a daily writing routine that had him churning out books with astounding speed. Over the course of 35 years, he wrote 47 novels as well as many short stories, nonfiction books, and plays.

Even more impressive, he did all this while working a demanding job as a post office inspector. His job required him to travel often and keep a busy schedule.

That meant that when he sat down to write, he needed to make sure he met his daily word count goal.

So how did he do it? Read on to discover Trollope’s unique strategy. [Read more…]