So glad this is working for you, Aurore!

Dear Daphne,
I’m doing the right things thanks to you !
I cannot express how GRATEFUL I am about your blog and advices ! THANK YOU THANK YOU soooo much !
I read you for the last 6 months before I decided to give it a try!

Actually, I used to edit while writting. Over the last week, I forced myself to write without editing (which was so difficult at the beginning. Now, I feel more confortable about it).
I produce a rapport (which I could not start) within 3 days : 3 times 15 minutes => 1925 words.
I will stick to 15 minutes per day during the next month. Then, I’ll try to increase to 25 minutes/day to check if I can keep the same rythm (400-500 words/15mn).

Thank you for sharing all these advices with us.

You are a fast writer if you can produce 400-500 words in 15 minutes. (Mindmapping is almost certainly helping you with this.) And, yes, writing without editing will dramatically increase your speed. Sounds as though you’re doing all the right things!

Writing without editing really changed my “writting life” !
I also created a chart to follow my progress as you suggest in this blogpost. I’ll see if I improve my speed.

Thank you for this blog and for all your valuable advices.
And sorry for my Hello Daphne,
This column is my favorite one!!
Over the last 10
years, I’ve been dreaming about writing a book…And I did not even
start. I was blogging for 7 years (and I wrote more than 1000 blog
posts) but I stopped writing when I had to change my editorial style
(moving from a personnal blog to professional blog).
Over the last year, I hardly wrote 10 blog posts ! I felt stuck in the mu….beurk …
Your
blog and advices changed my “beliefs” around writing. I though that I
was a slow writer and that I needed inspiration to write effectively.
Thanks
to your advices : I found out that I was not slow at all (I started
with daily period of 15 mn and I produced 400 to 450 words (in French)
on each period of 15 mn .. Of course, I had a very good mindmap with all
my ideas otherwise, I guess that I would write slowly.

Writing without editing really changed my “writting life” !
I also created a chart to follow my progress as you suggest in this blogpost. I’ll see if I improve my speed.

Thank you for this blog and for all your valuable advices.
And sorry for my awkward
English (I’m not a native speaker).

xxx
Aurore –

Great! I had the same question !! So it means that I have to calculate my writing speed only on the first draft (erything else being revising/editing).

very good advice. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I will do as you suggest.

Start way smaller than that, Grace. Being with 200 words a day. This “kaizen” technique is a good secret to success:
https://www.publicationcoach.com/what-the-japanese-can-teach-you-about-writing/

Thank you for being so supportive, Daphne. Actually I love writing despite the painful process. I once dreamed to be a writer but I always put it off because of other more urgent things. I am thinking of develop a habit of writing 2000 words each day.

Most things that are worth pursuing involve hard work. (I always think of my efforts to learn to play the piano when I make a statement like this!) Try to adopt a positive attitude and be sure to acknowledge your successes. Don’t try to fix everything at once. Focus on one thing at a time.

Right. Chances. But I still find it’s easier said than done.