To write, you have to have discipline. The discipline can vary. It depends on what other job you have. If you say, ‘I’m going to write one hour a day seven days a week,’ that’s enough if you have another job. It’s a commitment.
Maybe you’ll say, ‘I’m going to write one page that every day that I’m satisfied with. If I knock it out in ten minutes, I’ll quit. If I have to sit there half a night, I’ll stay with it.’ If you do that, at the end of a year you’ve got 365 pages of manuscript and that is not a fat novel, but it’s a novel.
For me, I write seven days a week, 8-10 hours a day, sometimes more. This is how I make my living. I don’t have to go off to an office or a factory.
If my wife wants us to go somewhere for a day, that’s fine. But there’ve been times when she’s actually brought me down to the front porch where I’ve found a fishing guide waiting. She’ll say, ‘The man has already been paid to take you fishing. Go get in his truck. Go!’
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