If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.
I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.
When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.