If you do the math, it's amazing what even a little bit of writing EVERY DAY can do. 200 words, about two sides of lined paper hand written, every single day f

If you do the math, it's amazing what even a little bit of writing EVERY DAY can do. 200 words, about two sides of lined paper hand written, every single day for a year, is 70,000 words. The first draft of a short novel. Even if you spend another year polishing, that's a novel every two years. One writing teacher said the main problem for most would-be writers is that they don't actually do any writing, not even what Anne Lamott calls a shitty first draft.