Tag: discipline, novel, procrastination, writers, writing

It must take a lot of self-discipline,’ she said.’Oh, I don’t know. I don’t have much.’ He felt himself about to say again, and unable to resist saying, that ‘Dumas, I think it was Dumas, some terrifically prolific Frenchman, said that writing novels is a simple matter – if you write one page a day, you’ll write one novel a year, two pages a day, two novels a year, three pages, three novels, and so on. And how long does it take to cover a page with writing? Twenty minutes? An hour? So you see. Very easy really.”I don’t know,’ she said, laughing. ‘I can’t even bring myself to write a letter.”Oh, now that’s hard.'(“Novelty”)