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This subject always intrigues me so I always look into them to see what information they have to offer, just to see if they contain a golden nugget of information that could increase my writing output way beyond my wildest dreams.
Sadly, I'm always disappointed because all they talk about is a piece of software I should be using, or how having more than one computer monitor can help, or how having a state of the art computer with all the bells and whistles will help me to write more.
To me, this isn't helpful. Writing is about having ideas and writing them out and publishing them as blog posts, articles, stories and books.
It's about sitting down every day and enjoying the process of writing.
What it's not about is learning how to use a piece of software, or being able to bring up multiple documents on multiple screens, or having an over-complicated computer with bells and whistles I'll never need.
To me that's not writing. It's more like working in a factory.
Finding ways to write more is much simpler to me.
A few years ago I was walking through the park when I saw a pencil on the ground. It was a brand new HB pencil so I picked it up.
When I got home I looked at it and thought, "This could be a pencil that writes a best-selling novel, or a series of money-making articles."
Somehow, finding that simple pencil motivated me to write. So I sat down and started writing, sharpening the pencil, and writing some more.
I wrote quite a lot over the next few days until the pencil was too small to write with.
But that's all it took to inspire me to write. A simple pencil.
I'm the same if I buy a new notebook. I start writing in it straight away. I write a lot.
Of course, handwriting means I have a lot of typing to do. But I don't mind. I'm a fast typist anyway.
And all I need to write more is a new pencil or a nice notebook.
Try it for yourself and see.
