How to Focus More on Your Writing and Use the Creative Mind to Make an Impact

Improve your writing skills for the better and live up to your potential

Have you ever thought of the perfect idea for a story, and had that drive of creativity to write a 2000-word story, but then once you start writing, you lose focus easily? It’s happened to me too many times and quite frankly I’m sick of it.

While it’s frustrating to stop paying attention to what we’re doing, it’s all in our mindset and you can easily focus more on your writing once you have the proper way of thinking.

There are no limits when it comes to how fueled we are by motivation and productivity.

We all have concentration difficulties, especially writers who struggle with ADHD. In fact, studies show that 5.4 million children have a current diagnosis of ADHD.

When a writer loses focus, it gets in the way of their thought process and creativity. It’s hard to motivate myself to get up and write a blog post even if the topic is interesting to me. My strategy before writing is clearing all sorts of distractions and getting into the flow.

The first thing to consider when writing, is the topic interesting to you. If not, don’t write about it. Sometimes it’s better to change the environment you’re writing in.

If you write at the same desk every day try and change to a different spot like a nearby coffee shop or a place where you know you’ll be productive.

Create outlines

Creating an outline before writing your story will prove to be your best friend.

Brainstorm the headline first and write them down on your phone. It’s a struggle to organize your ideas in a blog post, that’s why outlining will specifically help with constructing your thoughts in a steady manner.

Outlines are especially useful for long stories and you want to organize your thoughts as best as possible. I found that it’s less intimidating creating a blog post once I have the outline created for it.

It ensures that you are completely focused and prioritized on your writing. Once a writer goes into a story with all the information organized and knows how to format it, you’ll feel extreme fulfillment and delight.

Outlines help me stay focused on the topic and not lose track or ramble on for too long.

An outline is your best friend when writing.

Focus music

Your mind tends to wander and sometimes the only thing that can prevent your mind from stress or anxiety is listening to music. The purpose of music is to be therapeutic and boost our imagination, there is no bad time to listen to music, especially music that helps you focus.

It’s important to know that music with lyrics will make us lose focus and become less effective when writing so it’s best to play background music.

There are plenty of focus music videos on YouTube that can be up to 12 hours long. With the right music, you’ll feel a sense of motivation and your writing skills will be improved.

Don’t go on the phone

Your phone is the biggest distraction around you. Luckily if you’re well-controlled enough to not care about what’s going on social media and who Pete Davidson is dating, you’ll see your writing improve dramatically in less time.

Don’t let your phone control you, too many times I’ve accidentally scrolled through TikTok for hours without even realizing it. I even had to set a time limit for myself because of how much I’ve been using it.

It’s okay to not text your friends for an hour. I promise you, that nothing in your life will change if you don’t get your Instagram Explore page.

The world will still remain the same.

Any sort of interruptions will reduce the quality of your writing, that’s why it’s important to set a specific time to write so that you have no sort of distractions and concentrate on your writing.

Research in advance

No matter how much you want to avoid it, research is necessary for a point or bold statement you make whether that’s through citing studies from different years or other articles regarding the topic.

Researching will give you a feeling of expertise on a particular subject and it will make it easier for you to do it in advance.

Don’t overdo it though. Sometimes we end up doing too much research that burns us out and causes writers to lose motivation for the topic they were writing about.

When readers see that you provided real studies and proof of a statement you make, they will give you more credibility and take you more seriously.

Is it fun to research?

No. But it can be. Especially if it’s a topic you’re interested in and willing to learn more about.

Use the 10-minute method

A personal method I use every time I feel a sense of writer’s block, the 10-minute method is where you time yourself and write about something for only 10 minutes and see where you are when the alarm goes off.

If you think about it, ten minutes is a long time and we often tend to overthink how long it’ll take for us to finish writing a blog post. That overthinking of how long it’ll take just adds to the time you are already wasting by not getting started on writing.

Takeaway

Taking your writing seriously and following these methods will help your productivity increase and give you personal satisfaction once you finish writing.

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