Learn How to Use Daily Prompts

Recently, I learned something interesting: there’s no such thing as multitasking. People believe in multitasking and, in fact, most people think that they’re very good at it. But the evidence shows that what looks like multitasking is actually rapid task-switching.

When I was a kid, I loved reading Peanuts cartoons. There was a whole series about Snoopy as he tried to write a novel. He sat atop his red doghouse with a typewriter and bangs out: Book One Part One Chapter One Page One. “What a great start!” he tells himself.

When you’re telling a story, it’s vital that you keep a sense of your ending in your mind. You don’t need to know the exact ending before you write it, but you should have a sense of how it will feel to the reader. Happy? Sad? Mixed?