Creating a Consistent Rhythm to Work on Your Book

If you have ever felt like you need huuuuge blocks of time to write your book - and you keep putting it off until you do - this episode will change the way you see the process!

I'm talking about how to build a consistent writing practice that works with your real life. Because when your writing practice becomes too unpredictable, it becomes easy to lose momentum, disconnect from your book, and begin doubting yourself.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why consistent routines matter so much more than how intensely you focus on your book
• Why writing in small increments is enough to move your book forward
• How to create a supportive structure that makes writing feel easier and more natural

You will also discover how writing alongside others can help you overcome resistance, reconnect with your voice, and build steady momentum over time.

If you are ready to stop waiting for the perfect time and start building a sustainable writing rhythm, this episode will show you how!

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Transcript

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Hey everyone. One of the biggest myths about writing a book is that you need huge blocks of free time to make any sort of meaningful progress. Maybe you think you need to go on a writing retreat or clear your entire work schedule for a month to be able to write your book. But the truth is that most of us don't have the ability to do that. We have full lives, businesses, responsibilities, emotional ups and downs, ever-changing schedules, other people to think about, and so many unexpected things that can pull our attention away. And the real challenge is almost never that we don't have time to write, or that we're not capable of writing a beautiful, meaningful book. It is a lack of consistency. So today I want to talk about how to create a consistent writing rhythm. Because writing a book is not about writing a lot, it is about writing regularly, on a rhythm, and having that meaningful practice that you return to again and again on a cyclical basis. When you start getting into the rhythm of staying connected to your book in this more steady, sustainable way, everything changes. Most people write in burst. You might feel inspired one day and write for hours at a time, making incredible progress and feeling deeply connected to your book. And then life happens as it always does. Life be life in. And your attention shifts, your energy moves elsewhere, those days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months, and eventually your book starts to feel a little bit distant. And this is not because you lost your ability to write or even that you got too busy. It's because you lost your connection to the book. Every time you stop writing for a long period of time, you lose that momentum and clarity and the emotional thread that makes writing feel natural and alive. And so when you try to return to it, it feels much harder than it did before. Not because you cannot do it, but because you are starting from that stillness again. It is writing consistently that keeps that connection alive. Even super small amounts of writing can help you stay connected. For example, writing for 15 minutes three times per week is far more powerful than writing for five hours once every two months, because consistency keeps the book present in your life. It allows that clarity to build gradually. It allows your confidence to grow. And it allows your book to unfold naturally instead of forcing yourself to start over again and again. It's also really beautiful because you create this relationship with the universe, because the universe knows you're going to have that chunk of writing time every day, even if it's only 15 minutes, and it will start feeding inspiration your way, making it become even more of a co-creation with the universe. And you don't feel like you're writing it all alone anymore. I really feel like one of the biggest reasons people struggle with consistency, whether it's around writing or just working on your book in general, is this all or nothing thinking. If you believe that you don't have an hour or two hours, it's not worth starting, that kind of thing. So you wait and you wait for the perfect time and the perfect energy, the perfect conditions. But books are not written in perfect conditions. They're written in those small increments, one word at a time, a paragraph at a time, a page at a time, capturing those ideas as they come to you before they disappear. Another reason why consistency can be really difficult is because we feel isolated. Everything else in our life has some kind of deadline. Like you have to go grocery shopping because if you don't, you won't have anything to eat. You need to brush your teeth because if you go to your next dentist appointment, they're gonna look at you side-eyed if you don't. Work always has deadlines, builds have deadlines, and it's really easy for those things to become a lot more present in your mind than you're writing when you're trying to do it alone with no accountability. Writing alone can feel kind of vulnerable because there's nothing holding that process in place. If you don't have a container or a structure or a rhythm, and when writing exists only in your mind as something that you should be doing someday, it becomes so easy for it to drift further and further away. What's really important for you to understand is that being inconsistent is not a personal failure. It doesn't mean that you screwed up and there's something wrong with you, and why can't you get it together? It's almost always a structural problem. It's not that you lack discipline, it's that you haven't yet created that environment that makes that rhythm feel really natural and supported. We have to weave it into our routines and our rituals in our day, just like we would a meditation practice or a yoga practice. So, how can we create this consistency? Step one is to remove the pressure to write perfectly. Your only real job is to show up. It's not to write something brilliant or to write a whole finished paragraph or page or chapter. Not even to write something that makes sense immediately. Because that clarity that you're hoping to come through, it comes through in the process of writing. One day when you show up to your writing practice, you might just be doing research, you might just be brainstorming, you might not even be getting words on the page, but that's part of the process as well. Even when you're done writing your book, you can use these consistent time blocks that you set aside to edit your book or to do any of the other tasks related to publishing your book or marketing it. This is a long-haul project when you commit to writing a book. And it's so much easier to set aside little chunks of time consistently than it is to wait for those big spans of time to get a ton of stuff done at once. So the second step is creating a regular container. Your nervous system will relax so much when it knows when your writing will happen. It stops hanging over your head as this thing that like you need to be doing, but you're not doing enough of it. And you stop waiting on motivation or even iteration and just let writing become part of your rhythm. This can look like writing at the same time each week, sitting in the same place, or even beginning with a small ritual that signals that it is time for you to write. Over time, this consistency makes writing feel more familiar and easier to enter, and it stopped hanging over your head because you're like, well, I did work on it today. Even if it was just a little bit, it relieves that pressure of feeling like, oh, there's so much I should be doing, but I'm not doing it because you are doing it. The third step that can really help a lot in creating consistency is writing in the presence of others. This is one of the most powerful and often overlooked ways to build consistency. When other people around you are writing to, your brain focuses more easily. That feeling of resistance softens, and it feels so much safer to just buckle down and work. Your nervous system really responds to that shared environment, and writing no longer feels like something you have to force yourself to do alone. That's why I'm so excited to be bringing back our writing free flows. I know that some people listening are deep in working on their book already, but there are also quite a big handful of you who haven't started yet because maybe you don't feel fully confident in your voice, or you're not totally clear on your book idea, and you need more practice writing. So writing free flows are live writing sessions where we can simply gather and write together. There's no pressure to be working on a book or to be at any specific part in your process. You basically can arrive exactly as you are, simply show up ready to write or to practice writing. At the beginning, we'll do a little guided meditation to drop in. I'll provide a prompt, a writing prompt to help you start if you need one, or you can just feel free to work on wherever you left off on your book, and then we'll enter a focused writing period together. This is something that we were only offering inside book magic before in the mastermind, and now we're opening it up to anyone who wants to join us for this regular container to write. I'm hoping that this will help remove so many of those invisible barriers that can make writing difficult, removing decision fatigue because you don't have to decide when or how to begin. It removes that feeling of isolation because you don't have to do it alone. And because we're holding writing free flows twice a month, it creates consistency naturally and helps you build momentum in a way that feels really supportive instead of exhausting. Knowing that you have a scheduled time on your calendar to write is not only gonna relieve the pressure and those spinning thoughts of you thinking, well, I said I care about this, but I'm not doing it because you'll be doing it, but it's gonna help you begin to make meaningful progress on your writing, whether it's a journal entry or working on a blog or newsletter, or going all in on your book, as you gain more confidence in your voice and in your ability to write. What people are often most surprised by is how much easier writing can feel inside this kind of regularly scheduled container. They're surprised by how much progress they're making in these really small increments. It's only an hour and a half long with an hour of dedicated writing time. But a lot can happen in an hour. You'll get to experience how quickly your clarity returns when you begin showing up regularly in this way. Because the truth is that you don't need more discipline and you don't need more time. You just need a supportive structure and a supportive community of other people who are also on this path. You can learn more and sign up for our writing free flows and join our writing community at bookmagic.co slash writing free flow. All one word. That's bookmagic.co slash writing free flow. And I'll pop the link in the comments below. I just don't want you to feel like your book is something you need to like force into existence and just completely escape from your entire life and work and family to do. Instead, we want to look at building that long-term relationship with your writing and your book over time. Creating consistency will build trust between you and your book. It'll help you trust yourself more, it'll help you trust the universe more, and it will help you stay connected and present with what is unfolding within you. When you show up regularly, the book begins to meet you there. Ideas arrive more easily, your words flow more naturally. Writing becomes less about hustling and having this big effort, and it's more about returning on a cyclical ritual and routine. It becomes something familiar you can step back into. And in that way, it's also kind of healing for you because this is a time and place that is specifically appointed for you to get in tune with the words that want to come through you, with the thoughts that have been bubbling inside of you, and bring them out onto the page. So if you, like many others, have struggled to stay consistent in your writing, please know there's nothing wrong with you. You are not lazy, you're not incapable. Most of us simply have not had the right structure to support us yet. Like I said, you don't need to write for hours, you don't need to have those perfect conditions. It's really just about showing up little bits at a time, whether that's writing with us in community inside our writing free flows every two weeks, or setting aside time on your calendar, even in 15 to 30 minute periods of time, that become these important deadlines and meetings that are non-negotiable for you to attend. You owe it to yourself and your book to take the stress off of yourself of stop threatening yourself with that big famous word someday, and instead set aside these times to turn on the tap so that your book can drip out of you and eventually flow. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. I hope to see you at a future writing free flow. It's low pressure, low commitment. All the replays will be posted in there as well. So if you miss one, you can still press play and feel like you're part of the community. And the writing prompts can be very helpful as well for knowing where to start or even just clearing out some of the extraneous thoughts that have been floating around in your mind and getting in your way of being able to be an open channel for your book to flow through you. Take care, everyone, and I'll talk to you again next week.