Hello, welcome to technique nine. In strategy seven attitudes, technique nine states, trust yourself. Previously, it was trust your curiosity, and write what you care about. And now it's trust yourself, find the process that works for you. There are a lot of different ways that you can generate ideas in your writing. There's a lot of different ways you can draft there's a lot of different ways you can set up your style, as long as it works.

And reading good writers is a way to see the diverse ways that different writers go about their process, reading about what they do, and reading their nonfiction about the writing process is found to be very, very helpful. So trust yourself and find the process that works for you. It's just like learning to play the piano or learning writing itself. First, you learn the rules and you do for example, piano, you do scales over and over and over until you're sick of them. You play songs and you learn to put those notes together to play more complex songs. And then after a while it starts to come.

Naturally, it's more an unconscious or a subconscious thing. And so when you get to the point where you understand the rules intrinsically, that's when you learn to use your instincts and you can break them when you look at the context of a situation. And so trusting yourself and finding the process that works for you. Once you learn those techniques first and experiment with things you'll find what works for you in one situation may not work for you and another and so you need to keep trying reapplying and remaining conscious of what techniques work for you and in what situations. So while other rules are good practices, find the process that works for you. Learn the rules, practice them and then learn when it is appropriate to bend or break and that one's An example of that for would be that many authors have a daily quota in how much they write each day.

For example, Arthur Conan Doyle allegedly write 3000 words a day, that's quite a lot for one day. But other writers Stephen King, for example, writes 2000, that's still quite a bit, perfectionist may only get 500 out. But the key here is productivity. If it works for you, if nothing's coming out, it's not working. But if you're writing 500 words a day and you do that every day, then that's good if that works for you. If you're a poet, you may write two or 300 words a day.

It just depends. Example to some writers type or scribble madly for hours to produce a torrent of words like a free write or like just stream of conscious but others meticulously construct an outline before writing the word. Whatever works, try different techniques, find what works for you and go with it. And then don't Be afraid to try something different. And if it doesn't work, worst case scenario, you're like, Look, that didn't work. Okay, but at least I tried it.

So the whole don't knock it till you try it thing, you know, you're good there. Um, and what works for you, like I said may vary from one situation to the next it's about staying open and being clear about each context and adapting to that context is a critical thinking skill that good writers have. So just make sure that you're staying open and aware and open to trying new things, but at the same time, using experience that has worked for you. And so just to recap of technique, nine, trust yourself and find the process that works for you. Just because somebody else does something differently, and it doesn't work for you. That's okay.

It doesn't make you a bad writer. It just means that you have a different way and that's okay.