My writing habits.
Recently, I wrote about how writers don’t have an excuse not to write. Time is not an issue. Length is not an issue. The only question is whether they care enough about their craft to learn and practice.
This probably led some of you to ask, “But, Sam, what do you write daily?” I’ll tell you.
On average, I write between two thousand and three thousand words. And for those who don’t speak “words,” this works out to roughly eight and twelve pages of typescript. Some days, I go longer, and some days shorter, though I generally never produce less than a thousand words. I don’t feel I’ve worked enough if I don’t hit a thousand.
As of this writing, I’ve done about five thousand words today. I include writing for the blog because words are words. I’ve written less fiction, but I’m still doing what I do best: crafting sentences. One after another. Paragraph after paragraph. Page after page.
You can see why I don’t sympathize with those who whine that they can’t do it. Are they telling me they can’t write a measly two hundred and fifty words? Because at that rate, they will have written a substantial novel by the time a year has passed. And isn’t that what everyone wants to do? Write a novel? Even my father, who never had a creative impulse, wanted to write a novel. And he could have… if he had the discipline.
Do you?