The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

Roald Dahl’s comment :

Make finishing your task your « next task »

Stop when you know what you will do to finish it

Stop when you feel the drive to finish it

Stop when you reach a creativity peak

Stop thinking about it until the next day

Avoid being stuck

Keep the momentum going

Start your day by the rewarding work of finishing a task

Boost your self-confidence and motivation levels before starting the « next task »

End your day on a high note

Put your brain to purposeful rest when you stop working

Allow you subconscious to work profitably on « it » = « the bigger picture » = your goal.

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(You can find Hemingway's tips on writing in Ernest Hemingway on Writing and A Moveable Feast ).Let’s see what another famous writer, Roald Dahl, has to say about Hemingway’s hack (in The Roald Dahl Treasury ). Excerpts :To summarize, Hemingway tells you :Of course if you want to get into the completion habit, you should start by finishing your daily task (related to an important goal), no matter how sloppily you do it. But often, if you limit yourself to this way of getting things done, you cannot help worrying about the poor quality of your work and feeling dissatisfied with it until the next day.And this is not good for your self-esteem. What is not good for self-esteem is not good for motivation. And without boosting your motivation level you cannot get into the completion habit.With some practice, you can go fromto. In my 22-year career as a professional journalist I went through all the stages : I started by being a perfectionist , rereading and rewriting every sentence of an article, therefore getting stuck all the time. I moved on to practicing sloppy drafts whenever I was stuck and improving them afterwards. Until one day, when I stopped when I was "going good". Why ? Because it was a beautiful summer evening, because I wanted to listen to the Rolling Stones,my article.Since then, I always make myself stop when I know what I am going to do next ( and not when I want to listen to the Stones on a summer evening - which is what I dream of doing all the time). And I learned to apply this rule to other tasks, when I decide to clear up my wardrobe or to sort out my record collection for an easier access to my 325 Stones records (pretty obvious). Subscribe to The Second Act by Email and stay updated on the release date of my FREE REPORT. Be the first to download it and learn the keys to finding your charisma, then expressing it through timeless harmony among clothes, accessories, hair-style.