If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
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.
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.
Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.
I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.
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