Today's soundtrack is Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour.
This morning, I'm reading the second chapter of the second part of Stephen King's On Writing.
King begins by asking the reader a question. "If 'read a lot, write a lot' is the Great Commandment--and I assure you that it is--how much writing constitutes a lot?" (p. 151).
Depending on the author, "a lot" can mean many things. King gives several examples of authors' catalogues: some only wrote one book in their lifetime; others wrote five hundred volumes. King himself had written thirty-five at the time of publishing, and is "considered prolific" (p. 152). He says that writing is best when it's done every day, so that the characters and plot are exciting and fresh and don't have time to turn from feeling like real people into feeling like characters. King writes every morning, every day. His goal is to write 2,000 words a day, which lets him write a first draft of a book in three months. He says that the way he gets this done "is working in a serene environment" (p. 154), being healthy, and being married to a woman who is "self-reliant" (p. 155).
