Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.
Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymore. When friends ask me how my week was or how I'm doing, I think back on it, and I've just been by myself. Like, I'm just a sketch.
It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.
A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.
Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.