The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.
The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.
The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.