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What are your writing habits?

do you write:

Every day?
All the time?
Once in a while?
When I am inspired?
When I have no other choice?

I write every day whether I want to or not
many days I don't want to, but I do it anyway

Literary rumor has it that Mickey Spillane wrote 5000 words per day
Earnest Hemingway wrote 500 words a day.

I decided to base my writing goals on the Hemingway model. 500 words per day.

The best writing advice I've ever heard was, "Keep the hand moving."

"The world revolves around the hand that writes" Amos Oz

j lives in Nir Oz, I wonder if it was named after him.

I write in a journal every day....call it therapy..

i write everyday. have to keep the knuckles limber in hopes that maybe a stray thought will actually agree to slip onto a page.

stilltrucking - 'Oz' means 'strength'. 'Nir' is the ploughed part of a field ready for seeding.
So, what is the meaning of our name? Perhaps something like 'strength is a ploughed field'? or a ploughed field of strength.

in any case, Amos and the kibbutz share the idea of strength but not because we're related.

thanks j
I googled Nir Oz
Amos changed his name, to the Hebrew word Oz. I forgot what his name was before he changed it.
And it was not he who said that about the hand that writes, it was his grandfather.

I have no writing habits
Just compuslions.

I´m not good for polls I guess, I´m between the last two options!!!!

My writing habits?

I quit. Again.

Nazz wrote:My writing habits?

I quit. Again.

oh yeah, that's part of my discipline too
I quit daily (right after my 500 words)

i think writing everyday has helped me. not only in output, but in the ability to access that interior realm of what we call inspiration. it's like wearing a path out by repeated walks into the overgrowth.

I write when I can't breathe.

doreen peri wrote:I write when I can't breathe.

I thought you had an inhaler for that

keep the hand moving, dino

That was my best line in months.