Latoya over at Writer’s Brew has a nice post about the habits of an effective freelancer. Go check it out and see how you can apply these habits to your writing career.
The interesting thing about “effective habits” books and posts is that they don’t always work for everybody. If they did, we’d all be highly effective. If I tried to do things the way Warren Buffet does them, you’d probably find me going insane somewhere remote.
The key is to take the general concepts of these “effective habits” and apply them in ways that work for you. To someone else, perseverance might mean marketing yourself tirelessly. To me, it means writing every day, regardless of how I feel.
Find a way to make the habit work for you, and you’ll have your own kind of success. And soon, people will be writing about your effective habits.
Thanks for the plug. I absolutely love your spin. What you mentioned is probably the most effective habit of them all - the ability to take advice you receive and figure out what it means to you. It won’t be the same for everyone.
Left by latoya on April 4th, 2007