I just came across this article by Silas House. I think it contains some very helpful information about writing, (well, at least the kind of writing I attempt), and thought I’d pass it along to other, aspiring writers.
The following quote from the article really stands out:
“The No. 1 question I get at readings is: “How many hours a day do you write?” . . . Sometimes I write for 20 minutes. Other times I don’t stop writing for six hours, falling over at the end like an emotional, wrung-out mess, simultaneously exhausted and exhilarated. Sometimes I go months without putting a word on the page. “I write every waking minute,” I said. I meant, of course, that I am always writing in my head.”
In the past, I sometimes fretted over the amount of time I spent daydreaming. No more. I came to realize long ago that the bulk of that kind of thinking was simply my writing in my head, taking new paths and discovering different scenes and characters and notions.
Anyway, I wanted to share.
