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You have to do it every day - creativity comes in bursts and you don't know when it's going to show up so you need to be the one showing up every day to work on
by nemo44x 5y ago
You have to do it every day - creativity comes in bursts and you don't know when it's going to show up so you need to be the one showing up every day to work on it.
Hemingway would write (sober) every morning and then be drunk by lunch and for the rest of the day and early evening. But he worked every day for a few hours. People like to focus on his appetite for drinking but he got his work done first.
- andai 5y ago“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.” — W. Somerset Maugham
- slavik81 5y agoFrank Herbert was quoted in "Shoptalk: Learning to Write with Writers" saying something similar: "A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there now doing the thing on paper. You're not killing the goose, you're just producing an egg. So I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I've heard about it. I've felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I'd much rather go fishing, for example, or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, 'Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.' There's no difference on paper between the two."
- jxm262 5y ago> creativity comes in bursts and you don't know when it's going to show up so you need to be the one showing up every day to work on it. This comment right here adds alot of clarity for me. When worded this way, it makes total sense why this is so effective.