The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.
Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.
My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.
Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.
I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.