There is so much advice for writers out there, it can be hard to decide what an individual should listen to.
I’m a knowledge sponge and soak it up whenever I can. To that end, I’ve read countless books on writing as well as listening to all kinds of audio series, videos and live lectures on how I should write. I also now have four books so I have a little experience in writing and have settled into my own routine.
One of the big recommendations from many pros is to write something every day on your novel/work in progress. Even if it is just a few hundred words. Or if you can write 1000 words a day, you’ll have a novel finished in a few months. I’ve struggled with this before. I tried it and just failed and ended up feeling guilty because I hadn’t written anything on the latest book.
I find I’m more like a binge writer. I like to let the urge build up and then I schedule time to let it all out onto the page. I also have a day job and cannot be creative after a full days work so my best writing day is at the weekend when I can immerse myself into the writing process. I know Stephen King wrote every day when he had a day job but most pros don’t have that to worry about anymore – but they all started like us so there’s no excuse. It’s just how we can shape our lives to fit in the writing. I want to write fast, I want to be prolific but right now, binge writing suits my lifestyle.
The first mind map for Prophecy, my next thriller novel
I’m currently planning my next novel, Prophecy. I’m in composting phase which means I’m gathering ideas, writing mind maps with initial thoughts, reading books around the topic and then letting my brain create new ideas from this raw material. I’m not writing anything on it at all. But I am writing blog posts, doing interviews and writing other things – just not my next book.
I need at least a month of composting before I want to write. Some of the scenes are starting to emerge already but this time around I will be outlining more thoroughly anyway. I’ll start writing when the urge gets overwhelming. Then I will have the first draft binge writing phase. I’ll get up at 5am and write before work and will write every weekend. I’ll be aiming for 5000-8000 words per week. The blog, podcast and other things will go on the backburner. So I can happily oscillate from one extreme to another.
On this topic and writing fast, have a listen to this round-table with Dan Sawyer, Mur Lafferty, Gail Carriger and Nathan Lowell. Gail writes 2000 words per day, no excuses. Nathan is a binge writer who doesn’t write for months and then can write 10,000 – 20,000 words a day.
How about you? Do you write every day or are you a binge writer?
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I think I’m a little of both. I learned a lot from participating in NaNoWriMo and writing novels in 30 days and generally I do write most days. Sometimes I don’t though. Dry periods of listening to the critic that says, Your can’t write, your story stinks and in fact you stink Misty.” I sit around feeling sorry for myself but then I go out and live in the world a bit. Next thing you know I’m itching to write it all down. Can’t keep it locked up. I guess I go mad without writing and really I feel most alive when I’m connected to the ” creative pen.”;)
I love to wait until I feel like I’m going to explode unless I write and then I get it all out at once!
Some comments from twitter
@thedum “I set deadlines and the bingewrite as time runs out! sometimes I write every other day”
@Kennecto “I like writing a little every day.”
@NakiaRL “I’m a binge writer. Hangs head low in shame. I get in this weird zone and eat all the words!”
@FaruKazi “I was trying to write everyday but does not happen if the schedule goes for a toss, when the mood is bad, etc.”
@JamesStratford “If you’re on roll, keep rolling. If not, keep the pen working somehow. Discipline and creativity can be great friends!”
Great article, Joanna.
Great timing too. Just this last week I’ve been pondering this very dilemma and trying to figure out what approach works best for me.
I came across an article recently that, although geared towards academic writing, suggested an approach that I thought I’d try this week for my creative writing.
Basically, the article suggests you write for 90 minutes a day, no matter how busy you are. If some days get really crazy, promise yourself to write for AT LEAST 15 minutes on those days.
Here’s the article: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas/pages/cstudents/dean/break-writing/break-1.html
Of course, 90 minutes seems like a lot of time to try and squeeze in between other things on a day-to-day basis, so I’ve combined it with that other classic approach – getting up extra early every morning (eeepp!).
So now I get up extra early, jump straight out of bed and hit the keyboard. No breakfast. No shower. No exercise. No internet. No distractions. Just 90 minutes of writing first, then I can start my day properly, with the satisfaction that I’ve already achieved something worthwhile before most people start their workday.
That’s the theory anyway…
Of course, it’s still early days. I might still end up resorting to binge writing, but there’s something about writing every day that is very satisfying and makes me really want to give it a solid go.
Thanks Adam. I definitely spend at least an hour a day writing but on blog posts or other things. I guess I mean creative writing re a book or other large project. The 90 minutes idea is a good one though, and I use that during the binge phase – like you, I get up early and write BEFORE email! Thanks.
Hi Joanna,
Thanks for a great article – it made me feel ‘normal’. I am definitely a binge writer. I write on my blog most days but my novel is definitely a ‘binge’ project.
I’ll write regularly for a few days and then take a break until I know that I just have to sit down and let it all spill out.
Thanks for providing so much inspiration
Cheers, Fi
Hi Joanna —
Thanks for the mention!
I was a binge writer for years, and found it very satisfying during the binges and the anticipation. However, as the years rolled by I found myself increasingly frustrated by two things:
1) When the binge came to an end, or I hit a block, that was it. I was screwed until I could muster up another binge.
2) After a binge, I would find myself exhausted–happily so–and creatively tapped out.
These two things coupled together meant that I spent more and more time frustrated by the feeling that I was at the mercy of my muse, that my output was comparatively small when measured against the level I was working at and the number of years I’d been writing, and that I simply wasn’t producing at a rate that I would be able to make a living on.
This dissatisfaction grew for a number of years–like you, I found daily writing to be a grind, and somewhat oppressive, and less joyful.
Last year, I was trying like hell to shake me loose from the worst part of binge writing: success. I’d put out two very popular podcast books, and I was completely blocked up with anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to repeat the performance. Try though I might, I simply could not summon my talent to do the sequel to Predestination, and I had an impatient audience writing increasingly irritated emails wanting to know when the next story would be available.
I had to do something. I decided to work on a nonfiction book and a short story–low demand projects that would hopefully shake me loose.
They did shake me loose. I wrote two full books in five weeks, followed it up with two short stories, and decided that, no matter what, I would *not* stop the binge. I started writing every day, on purpose, at least 1,000 words with an eye towards pushing to 5,000/day.
Seven months on, I’m at 3k/day, give or take the occasional day off and/or difficult day when I only squeeze out 1,000. I’ve written more than a third of my lifetime word count in the past seven months, and I’m poised to finish my fourth and fifth books written in that time.
I discovered that, after I got used to the discipline, the daily writing regimen is FAR more fulfilling than the binge work I did before–and the quality of the storytelling is better.
Assuming I can simply maintain my discipline for my current level of productivity, I should finish a further eight books (all already underway at some stage of development and/or writing) by a year from now. Even if I slow down a bit, I’ll still be MILES ahead of where I’d have been had I continued on the binge route, both in output and in craft.
For what it’s worth
-Dan Sawyer
Hi Dan, thanks for your inspiration! You’re a writing legend!
I would ask a follow-up question though – were you working a day job while doing 3000-5000 words per day?
I spend time on my blog before work and also in the evenings but I find I can’t be “creative” with fiction on those days unless I get up very early before I put on my “day job head”. I need to leave the fiction until I can separate myself from the world of IT and immerse in story. So did you manage both, or is your prolific word count because you’re a pro now?
Joanna –
I’ve been self-employed for about ten years now, though when I was working a day job I found it easier to write a little every day because of the externally imposed structure (after I started the first of my companies, I actually stopped writing fiction with any regularity for several years, because I couldn’t justify the time/energy–once I started again, it was in binge mode).
For myself, my prime productive periods during the day are late morning/early afternoon, and late night (11pm to 2am). I schedule my clients and client work and non-writing creative projects around those prime hours, so I can hit my natural rhythms best (and several days a week I have to sacrifice the early afternoon session).
Generally, when I’m in a groove, I can drop betwwn 1k and 1500 wds/hr. When I’m just writing without any particular momentum or inspiration, I’ll do around 800 in an hour. When I’m really grinding it out due to a mental or emotional block, I get maybe 2-300 words in an hour.
Once I hit 2k words in a day, I consider my minimum met, and then (depending on what time I have left and what other demands I have that day) the rest is a contest to see how much extra I can get. This slowly has pushed my minimum/average up (from my original baseline of 1k–which, if I don’t meet it now, I get really pissed about). So, a 2k day is acceptible, 3k is pretty good, 5k is great, 7500 is VERY satisfying, and 10-20k in a day (which I have only ever been able to do at the very end of a book, when all the pieces are in place and I’m mostly just transcribing) is VERY exceptional.
One of these days, though, I want 5k to be the minimum, 10k to be a good day, and 20k to be the great day. I’m a fast enough typist to pull it off, and a fast enough thinker, it’s just a matter of training myself up. Might take a few years, might only take one, but it’s nice to have a goal to shoot for every day
Oh! That last paragraph reminds me: there’s one other set of things I’ve found very useful about shifting from binge writing to daily writing. Having that goal every day–it’s a mini-deadline, and it’s very useful for keeping the motivation up. I know that if I average 2k/day for a year, I’ve got between 6 and 10 novels for the year (depending on how I parcel the length), and 2k/day is increasingly easy as I keep meeting those daily deadlines. Since the most discouraging thing for me as a creative person is the feeling like I’m not getting anywhere, and the most discouraging thing as a freelancer is the doldrums that can come from a lack of structure, the 2k/day thing kills a whole flock of birds with what amounts to being just a teeny pebble.
-Dan
You seriously are an inspiration. You and Dean Wesley Smith – prolific. That’s definitely where I want to get to but I’m also focusing on building this blog as a business in the non-work time. So I am not going to try and pace with your writing quite yet! Thanks for the extensive comments and sharing!
I’m definitely a binge writer. I go through stages of trying to force myself to write daily, but when I do I tend to write badly. What’s to point of sitting in front of the computer everyday feeling uninspired. I like to go out and get some inspiration. Then when the mood strikes I start writing.
I Love to binge write – those are truly the moments when you feel in the zone. Although, for me, I find if I don’t write at least a little each day, those “zone moments” start to decrease. I have struggled with the discipline of daily writing, yet it has helped me to find a consistent voice. I believe that I’m the type who needs this level of structure to get something accomplished. I admire those of you can binge write 5,000 words and then take time off!
In reading all these comments, I’m wondering if I’m actually a phase writer. i.e. I’m in a non-fiction, useful content and product phase right now. Then I’ll get back to fiction phase. I can drip feed non-fiction but need to binge fiction.
Hi Joanna, interesting article. I’m a bit of both and I enjoy both. I have done nanowrimo three times which is my binge writing. It gets words on pages and forces me through all those mental barriers that keep popping up. The target of 50,000+ words in 30 days helps me to concentrate and its so satisfying knowing you can achieve that.
The every day bit is where currently I am finishing and editing one of my nanowrimos by getting up at 0500 every work day and writing for an hour before alarm clocks start going off. I love writing so early in the morning because my mind is rested and there are no distractions. I go to bed at 1000 to catch up on the sleep though.
I’m a 5am writer as well. It helps being in Australia where the sun is up so early (Brisbane has no daylight savings!)
I’m also a sleeper so I am usually in bed by 9pm. I have thought about trying to reduce my sleep but I work very intensely and I think my brain needs those hours to process!
I’m a “write most days” writer. On a typical day, I’ll write 800-1000 words. Big days for me are 2000+ words, but they’re rare. No matter how you write, you shouldn’t feel guilt or shame. The best method for you is what works for you.
No guilt or shame round here! This is a positive thinking blog!
I’d say I’m a binge writer (I wrote 16000 words this past weekend, and probably won’t “write” on the project again for a week). That being said, I don’t view “writing” to be just be the process of sitting at the keyboard and pounding out the actual narrative prose. Doing the leg-work prior to the writing, blogging about things related to your writing, even just having discussions with people about those things, are all part of the process.
Part of this steams that I view myself as a “storyteller” more than a “writer”. So, yes, I might not put digital ink to digital paper every day, but I do think or act out in some way vis-a-vis my writing (steampunk at present, but I’ve tinkered in low and urban fantasy and sci-fi). As I see it, even reading about other people’s writing kind of counts. It is all material that will digest and compost into your own writing (so long as you get around to it, be it in daily bites or binges).
Long-short, though, I prefer to binge, although I could happily binge daily. I wrote a 100k word novel in 20 days once. It was glorious, although it burned me out for a few months after.
I think I would also like to binge daily for a prescribed period. I see a future where I don’t have a day job and I write a novel or two a year in shorter phases of bingeing. Then I have traveling time to gather ideas, speak and also an online blogging business. Together that would form a balanced creative and productive life as well as a sound business model. watch this space!
If I have a plan or a firm deadline for a structured project, I can write every day with awesome discipline. If it’s just a “someday” idea that I’m working on…I put it off till inspiration strikes and I binge write. Daily writing seems to be more productive for me, overall. That’s why structured projects like Project 52 or NaNoWriMo are effective.
I totally agree, I am a deadline focused girl. I work really well under pressure which helps me with the binge phase!
I am neither a daily writer or a binge writer. In other words, I vary my approach to writing. However, I think about my current novel everyday. When I come up with an idea I will binge write. Sometimes I go to my novel an reread a scene. Then I usually refine it or open a new scene. I’d say I average writing on my novel about 4 days a week. The other days I write posts to my mystery writing/travel blog, Global Mysteries.
https://nancycurteman.wordpress.com/
Fantastic Nancy. You prove that we can be successful with both approaches!
I write every day. I write blog posts, I write tales for contests. I’m in composting phase (to use your words) with my fantasy novel.
But sometimes I’m a binge writer, only if I have had no idea (or time) to write.
I love composting phase…
I write SOMETHING every day, but very seldom is it on the same project for more than 4 or 5 days straight. I DO tend to get more accomplished with the binge writing, though. A little 4-500 word session is good, but after a 6,000 word session, I seem to really get a better feel for where the story is going.
I’m a “most days” writer…because that daily progress is more motivating to me, and makes me feel more like it’s a job, rather than a hobby. I’ve been writing almost daily for over a year now, and I actually get antsy if I don’t get at least some work in on a project every day.
But I think a lot of writers are binge-writers, and the beautiful thing about writing is we can work at it as we choose.
Exactly, there are no rules in this game. We have to find the spaces and the time that is right for each one of us. I know my rhythm will change when I can go fulltime as an author/blogger/speaker.
The comments seemed skewed towards the bingers. Wanted to put a vote in for the slow and steady. Even the 1,6k per day of NaNoWriMo left me gagging. I’m definitely happier steadily churning out 1k or so a day and leaving off the story with a little leftover, so I can come back in the next day and pick right up without dawdling over the keyboard or getting bogged down rewriting the prior day.
You probably end up with more word count than the bingers
I’m definitely a binge writer, though occassionally I can write something almost everyday. I’ve forced myself to try and write something everyday (while working with a day job) but it doesn’t always work out the way. But when I’m in the groove, I can write for hours!
I write every day. Granted, sometimes I only write 50-100 words. Today I wrote about 1,500 words — it was a good day. :dreamy sigh:
Joanne,
I find I am also a binge writer. I intend to write every day but some days the juices just don’t flow. Other days, it is 12 hours in front of the keyboard. I’m also finding that I tend to write blog posts ahead of time, and schedule their posting. I’m usually looking for topics about a week ahead of when I might sit down to write. Other times, I get up in the middle of the night and capture thoughts in Word to work on the following day.
I don’t know if this will change in the future; I don’t think so. I’m too much of a ‘Type A’.
Needless to say, I enjoyed this post!.
I schedule my blog posts too. I wrote this one weeks ago!
I feel like I’m a binge writer, but in a different sense. I will write other stuff (kind of have to), blog posts, essays, emails, stuff for work, etc, all the time, but if I’m in the middle of a novel or a story, I will write almost every day, or whenever I have time, even if it’s not more than a couple paragraphs.
But when I binge write, it’s when I get onto something really good. So good in fact, dinner, phone calls, my favorite TV shows, and even sleep seem completely unimportant. If I’m onto something, I can write for hours and hours until the wee hours of the morning. That kind of writing is the best, but it doesn’t come without sacrifices, so it makes sense that it doesn’t happen than often.
On the other hand, sometimes I have blocks or droughts in writing where I won’t write anything creative for months.
But I don’t “store it up”. Not purposely anyway. I only do that if I don’t have the time to get going on something I want to write.
You’re right, the true binger sacrifices other things. I find I have to schedule a lot more blog posts, tweets etc in advance when I need a binge phase to allow myself the space to create.
I really should write every day, just because as I put writing aside, I tend to just let it languish away. I lose the thread of things. That being said, I’m more of a binge writer. I shouldn’t be, though, but that’s the way it works out.
I feel much more satisfied with myself and my writing and the story evolution when I make the effort to write daily.
BINGE WRITER! If my writing were alcohol, I would be put in jail for life. On a few occasions I’ve gone for twenty hour stints, truly a man possessed. Sometimes I think writers-block would be a nice antidote, but I never get writers block. Sometimes I’ll awaken during the night and something will hit me and I just have to get up and write it.
Even as a young teen, before the writer contagion, I would awaken at two in the morning and fire up my ham radio and seek out contacts until the sun was well up. I still plead guilty to that once in a while.
I’m not complaining, each of us has our own nature, and that is what works best for me. I’ve tried to regiment myself, to no avail.
wow! 20 hours – that’s amazing! I couldn’t do that but I can crank out the words when I am in binge mode. I am also an outliner and will move to even more outlining. I can write serious word count when I know what the scene is trying to do.
Joanna,
It’s interesting that you posted this now because I just did a post about how my new word count goal a day is 2,000. A lot of my friends said not to do that because it kills their creativity and they’d rather do what you call binge writing (which is a great way to put it). I’ve tried binging but it never gets anywhere, so I’m thinking maybe I’m the type that needs to just plunk my butt down and write the desired words a day.
Thanks for giving your insight! Always interesting to here the other styles of writing other writers have.
Elisa Michelle
Definitely listen to Dan’s audio because Gail Carriger does this and is very successful in writing 2000 words per day.
Will do! That makes me excited to think someone who is successful does the same thing. And I’ve been churning out more than 2,000 a day so far. We’ll see if this sticks though. I’ve been one to binge and then not write anything for months in the past. But I have a new outlook on the first draft now that might help speed things up.
This is a great post. I think it’s important for everyone to find their own writing rhythm rather than just blindly advice. After all, in the writing world rules are often made to be broken. Though of course I have two addendums to this. The first would be to take the aforementioned advice and see if it really does work. The second would be is to find your own writing pace but be careful it doesn’ t become an excuse to not finishing anything.
Anyhow I think that you covered it quite well. I also agree that you should write every day, even if it’s just a little thing.
As for me, I am definitely a daily plodder. Though on some occasions I can binge write, if I don’t write every day I get knocked right out of the story and it’s a bear of a time trying to get back in again. Then again my “story gestation” cycle tends to be fairly quick and I often don’t go back and outline until I’m at least midway through.
Thanks Sharon. I’ll need to do an outline vs discovery writer post next! People’s personality types make such a difference to writing style I think, as well as their daily lifestyle.
I’m definitely a ‘every day person’, although in between the daily sessions, I’m thinking and planning ahead. I binge think rather than binge write. I do a lot of planning at night which isn’t too good for my sleep patterns! It’s exhausting being creative – but well worth it!
I know what you mean Stephanie! This blog is pretty much all of my “spare time” although Glee has just arrived in my iTunes so I may have to take a break soon. It helps me be creative – honest!
I make my living from writing (and coaching writing), so it’s a daily thing for me. Usually, I’m working on blog posts, ebook content, or ecourse lessons.
When it comes to my fiction, though, I’m more of a binge writer, and I can go long periods without writing any fiction at all (particularly between drafts). When I’m working on a novel draft, I like to go at it pretty fast – ideally writing for a couple of 3,000 word sessions a week, or more.
I think my record was somewhere near 7,000 words in one Saturday… I was very spaced-out after that!
wow! 7000 words is brilliant
I like that space between drafts too. I’ve been increasingly thinking of Stephen King’s recommendations to put the first draft in a drawer and don’t look at it for a few weeks. It’s much easier to edit after that. I’ll be doing that with the next novel.
I tend to binge but I do like to binge everyday until a project is finished….hybrid-binger?
I LOVE the word ‘composting’ for what you’re doing. I’ve used ‘percolating’, but I think ‘composting’ is perfect.
Hybrid-binger is also a good phrase
I learned with NaNoWriMo that I can do binge writing and still produce work that can be usable with editing, but that id I write at that level for a month, so much of the rest of my life suffers. My kids eat a lot more fast food, my lesson plans are pulled from similar periods in past years, my husband wonders who I am. I still enjoy the intense writing but become unbalanced feeling, I need to get up and move, stretch my body, meet other people, read other people’s writings. So yes, I do binge write on occasion, like I binge eat at Thanksgiving, but in my average day to day existence, I write a bit on my book, a bit on my blog, post on a few forums and write a letter to family, read a book, go to a movie, take my son fishing then write some more.
Dixie Goode,
PS. Into Chapter 5 of your Pentecost now. I am really liking your characters and enjoying the suspense.
Thanks so much Dixie – I’m glad you’re enjoying Pentecost. I am learning every day of ways to improve so Prophecy will be even better!
You’re right that in binge phase, everything else suffers. I stop answering emails within 24 hours, stop blogging so much or schedule it all in advance and generally don’t have a life
I’m somewhere inbetween. I work on my WIP everyday except Sundays (my day to put family first), but that doesn’t necessarily mean cranking out thousands of words. Sometimes it’s only typing up a few sentences scribbled down during a lull at my day job. Other times, like now, it’s playing the “card game,” as Roz Morris calls it, to work on the WIP’s plot. Fridays I usually get to binge write for up to four hours.
As you put it, I do what works with my schedule.
That’s great to have a family focused day Virginia. I am trying to unplug one day a month which is pretty hard for a tech addict like me. Hammock time is forced rest
I do use sundays as my binge writing day once it comes time to put words on the page.
I’m definitely a binge writer. To be honest, I wish it was easier to coordinate my writing into my every day life, but until I’m able to work my way down to part-time with my job, this is how it has to be. I’m okay with that though–I find that I do the research for my writing during the week in between the work I accomplish for my clients, then in the evenings I refine my query letters and binge write all night long.
It’s actually been a decent system for me, as having the research in hand makes it so that I can accomplish a surprising amount in a short span of time.
I think it’s about balancing time when you have a job and other things to do, so I am in that same rhythm!
I am trying to write every day — on my own writing — not blogging, but so far it has proven to be difficult. There are so many distractions — like other blogs, yours as well, now that I have discovered you. It’s like dieting, you have to take one day at a time. In the past week, I’ve written two poems and almost finished with a short story, but I had to leave my house and kids to do it. It’s a great high for me to create something new, and it makes me feel really good — now only to get published!
Hi there Marina,
Just wanted to say that I’m really proud that you are taking the initiative to write more in the face of distraction–it’s so hard! I completely know how you feel. Learning is such an important part of writing too, and I’m constantly on other blogs and reading books to learn all that I can, but then it can be difficult to step away and complete the actual writing. Especially when working at home–my apartment is so tiny, and every little noise can make me feel cluttered. I sometimes feel like I’m in an Advil commercial, *snorts.
That’s great Marina! I know blogs are a distraction – I also find myself immersed in them, but I try to do that in my non-creative time i.e. in the evenings.
I’m a binge-writer, without a doubt. What you call composting, I call percolating. I like to take my ideas and let them percolate for a bit, and then when the major parts of the scene are congealed in my head, I sit down and write it. the minor stuff I write by the seat of my pants.
Sounds like me too! I wait for the scene to finish itself and then write it down but often it changes as I write.
Thanks for the article. It is sometimes difficult to take yourself seriously when a bunch of non-writers are always telling you how you ‘should’ be doing it!
I am a little of both. I write something every day – it’s almost like an addiction – but I do not work on my current book every day. I go in what I used to call spasms, but will now think of as ‘binging.’ I also use a recorder for my percolating (thanks, Gargantua – I’m glad I’m not the only one who uses the term). It seems my ideas and plot twists never happen when I’m near a computer or a pen.
Melanie – that’s fantastic and you must check out Kevin J Anderson who writes by dictating – a marvelous way to do it. He walks and writes – see this post http://kjablog.com/?p=747
I want to move to this but can’t seem to translate thought to mouth – my thought goes to screen!
I’ve got a Don’t Break The Chain calendar at the top of my web log that I update when i hit 1,000 words – whether blog post or chunk of novel – written every day. I’ve been moderately successful, having built up a couple of week-long runs and then broken them due to brainstorming, other commitments or just taking a break.
I am a big supporter of writing daily, even though I struggle with it myself. However, with that said, you make a good point in this article.
The problem with binge writing, in my opinion, is that it’s very risky. It’s so easy to just “wait for the muse,” so the speak, and never write a word for a week… then a month… then a year… then suddenly it’s the year 2020 and you’re wondering where your book went.
Still, as long as you have discipline, I think binge writing can work.
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