I’m on target to get some writing done everyday. To really be truthful that may constitute ten words or a thousand, but I’m trying to reestablish the habit of sitting down and writing. Writers like Steven King and Nora Roberts say they simply view writing as a job that they go to each day. Granted, it is a job they love, but one has to have the habit. I read that James Burke aims to get one page done a day. I’ve looked for the quote I thought I had read and can’t find it. I did, however, find that he tries to get 750 words a day. Reading about someone like Burke inspires me to keep plugging along.
“It was during this period I had to relearn the lesson I had learned at 20, when I worked on the offshore oil crew: you write it a day at a time and let God be the measure of its worth; you let the score take care of itself; and most important, you never lose faith in your vision. God might choose fools and people who glow with neurosis for his partners in creation, but he doesn’t make mistakes.” James Lee Burke in the New York Times