I’m just now getting in a routine after reading Pressfield’s “The War of Art” and getting on a night shift routine. I’ve written and completed more short stories in the past 3 months than I have in the past 3 years. Reading Pressfield I’m like, “oh shit, this IS what it feels like to write.”
2 90 minute sessions and only 2 90 minute sessions in my days off tend to generate 1-2 k words of varying quality.
My problem know is figuring out how much to edit and when to just move on.
I agree completely. Having written three books and about 200 papers on a wide range of subjects, I agree that establishing a routine is of the utmost importance.
However, just for the hell of it, I programmed my computer to count words as I wrote my last book (1996). I was both amazed and amused to find at the end that the final version contained only a little more tha 10% of the words I had actually written.
Word Count, Shmerd Count
**this combined with Cal Newport’s “Deep Work” is really helping me.
I’m just now getting in a routine after reading Pressfield’s “The War of Art” and getting on a night shift routine. I’ve written and completed more short stories in the past 3 months than I have in the past 3 years. Reading Pressfield I’m like, “oh shit, this IS what it feels like to write.”
2 90 minute sessions and only 2 90 minute sessions in my days off tend to generate 1-2 k words of varying quality.
My problem know is figuring out how much to edit and when to just move on.
I agree completely. Having written three books and about 200 papers on a wide range of subjects, I agree that establishing a routine is of the utmost importance.
However, just for the hell of it, I programmed my computer to count words as I wrote my last book (1996). I was both amazed and amused to find at the end that the final version contained only a little more tha 10% of the words I had actually written.
Thanks again.