Ten Shun!
A key part of writing is…well, writing. That is, the tedious matter of sitting down and actually putting words down on paper ( or typing them onto a screen).
Not that this is the whole of the writing process. Very far from it. The time you spend in front of your keyboard is simply an element of the imaginative process - the most visible and therefore the most organisable.
But in a sense, once you have properly embarked on a novel, you are writing all the time, whether you know it or not. Because a novel ultimately emerges from the subconscious mind and that never sleeps ( not even when you are asleep). I spend a fair amount of my time ‘writing’ lying in bed in a semi-trance like state. Sometimes nothing comes of this, sometimes ideas flow. You can’t really force it.
Having said, that you have to force it to SOME extent or you will never get anything written. And now we can talk about creating a schedule.
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