When you decided to take this course, you probably wanted to find ways to write more frequently, publish more often, and have more fun doing it. I hope this course has given you new skills and the tools you need to succeed. But you have to take the next steps.
The next step is to create a writing system that works for you.
Rather than trying to aim for an outcome-based goal ("Draft X blog post" or "Publish Y Book"), shift to a process-based goal. I like what Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has to say about goals in his book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life:
A goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it's a system.
By this definition, a system is something you do every day. Therefore, a writing system would require you to write every day.
The article "How to become a great writer" hints at the benefits of this approach. In academia, Robert Boice demonstarted that the most productive academics avoided long writing sessions and instead worked in "brief, regular sessions." Tara Gray applied Boice's findings to create a program where you schedule thirty minutes a day to write.
Create a system in your life where you write regularly. Write for thirty minutes a day, and you'll find that you hit publish more often, write higher quality material, with better results, and have more fun doing it.
What's next?