Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.
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I haven't got a writer's discipline.
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.
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