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(Reblogged from greatgatsby)
Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words a day. Jean Plaidy managed 5,000 before lunch, then spent the afternoon answering fan mail. My minimum is 1,000 words a day - which is sometimes easy to achieve, and is sometimes, frankly, like shitting a brick, but I will make myself stay at my desk until I’ve got there, because I know that by doing that I am inching the book forward. Those 1,000 words might well be rubbish - they often are. But then, it is always easier to return to rubbish words at a later date and make them better.
Sarah Waters (via writingquotes)
Wonderful tip. I believe Stephen King said something exactly like this in an interview. A must do for anyone who dares to call themselves a “writer”.
