My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.
What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.
It takes me ages to write stuff.
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.
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