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Basically, why I follow C. Robert Cargill on twitter.
"Gang, I do this for a living, and I set my daily goal at only 3 pages. Setting low daily goals means you hit them consistently and never feel the oppressive weight of failing to hit those goals. Feeling like you accomplished something every day keeps your momentum at full speed."
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He then clarifies for someone in a follow up that Stephen King does 5 pages a day.
Some context: Robert is a screenwriter so his 3 pages are going to be tighter and take more revisions than a novel or a fanfic would. Screenwriting has to be painfully lean and still work. Also, that doesn't mean pro writers do a few hours and lounge by the pool. Research, reading, studying other writers, making deals, promotional stuff, keeping track of the industry, doing things specifically to recharge creative batteries, etc. Some maintain a web presence by teaching writing, kinda like how Robert tweets regularly about writing to help mentor writers. I assume every writer I follow works way more than 40 hours a week. But that doesn't mean 40-60 hours a week actively writing.
He is also someone who used to be a reviewer who became a writer later in life.
Over the years I've heard a lot of pro writers say how much they write per day and it's always been between 2 and 10 pages. (The one exception is JMS who is the Spiders Georg of script writing)
Two more tweets from him:
"The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing."
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And yesterday he tweeted:
"There are 222 work days remaining in 2022.
If you only wrote one page a work day you could write two scripts or one novel.
If you wrote only 2 pages a day (That's 500-600wds), you could write 4 scripts or one long novel.
You have the time to bring that dream project to life."
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That's the thinking and the model of writing I am trying to follow. It's slow. But it's in line with how people get projects done and how every writer (except JMS) I've heard talk about their schedule does things. Ideally, I want to do a few pages a day and have my photowalking time be something what is my 'recharging my creative batteries' time. I'm not there yet. I am not consistently writing and my working through writing books has derailed my writing a bit.
I'd feel better about all of this if I had more work done. But, if you want to know where I want to be, it's basically what Robert describes. It's frustrating to not be nearer my goals, but slow and steady wins the race... unless I get hit by a meteor tomorrow, which knowing my luck...
"Gang, I do this for a living, and I set my daily goal at only 3 pages. Setting low daily goals means you hit them consistently and never feel the oppressive weight of failing to hit those goals. Feeling like you accomplished something every day keeps your momentum at full speed."
Link
He then clarifies for someone in a follow up that Stephen King does 5 pages a day.
Some context: Robert is a screenwriter so his 3 pages are going to be tighter and take more revisions than a novel or a fanfic would. Screenwriting has to be painfully lean and still work. Also, that doesn't mean pro writers do a few hours and lounge by the pool. Research, reading, studying other writers, making deals, promotional stuff, keeping track of the industry, doing things specifically to recharge creative batteries, etc. Some maintain a web presence by teaching writing, kinda like how Robert tweets regularly about writing to help mentor writers. I assume every writer I follow works way more than 40 hours a week. But that doesn't mean 40-60 hours a week actively writing.
He is also someone who used to be a reviewer who became a writer later in life.
Over the years I've heard a lot of pro writers say how much they write per day and it's always been between 2 and 10 pages. (The one exception is JMS who is the Spiders Georg of script writing)
Two more tweets from him:
"The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing."
Link
And yesterday he tweeted:
"There are 222 work days remaining in 2022.
If you only wrote one page a work day you could write two scripts or one novel.
If you wrote only 2 pages a day (That's 500-600wds), you could write 4 scripts or one long novel.
You have the time to bring that dream project to life."
Link
That's the thinking and the model of writing I am trying to follow. It's slow. But it's in line with how people get projects done and how every writer (except JMS) I've heard talk about their schedule does things. Ideally, I want to do a few pages a day and have my photowalking time be something what is my 'recharging my creative batteries' time. I'm not there yet. I am not consistently writing and my working through writing books has derailed my writing a bit.
I'd feel better about all of this if I had more work done. But, if you want to know where I want to be, it's basically what Robert describes. It's frustrating to not be nearer my goals, but slow and steady wins the race... unless I get hit by a meteor tomorrow, which knowing my luck...
