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Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.