“I treat my writing like an athlete and I train every single day and I at the end of every year I'm I'm constant asking myself the question like okay my my right hand is more dominant than my left hand what do I have to do to cross train and I'll I'll put myself through exercises... reading the a page or two of the thesaurus every morning or I'll read books in genres that I have absolutely no real interest in”

Train writing like a pro athlete — daily reps and deliberate cross-training

Most creators write to publish — pure output. Athletes train to compete — deliberate practice across weaknesses. Apply the athletic model: daily writing reps, plus weird targeted drills nobody else does. Read genres you hate to study foreign voice patterns; highlight a single book in three colors (voice / plot / structure) to reverse-engineer construction; read a thesaurus page every morning. The unsexy cross-training is what compounds into a voice nobody else has.