Carmiel Banasky

Cue, Routine, Reward I’d like you, for a moment, to think of writing not as a calling or gift or pipe dream, not even a profession or hobby. Instead, I’d like you to think of writing as a habit. For at least the remainder of this article, the desire to write is not some high-minded, abstract and holy adventure. It is, rather, no greater or lesser a task than brushing your teeth. I started thinking about writing in these terms when I read Charles Duhigg’s fantastic about the formation of habit through the lens of companies like Target. Here, I’d like to take that information and apply it to writing, examining habits that inhibit my writing, and what it takes to make writing a habit, looking to bolster the writing habit and curb the interfering habits. The first step is understanding the habit loop: cue, routine, and reward. Duhigg explains [...]