I don't think writing every day is necessary. I heard several famous authors say they rest between books. Muriel Spark talks of doing work in her head before writing. Whatever works is best. My way isn't the prescribed method. I have a more Mystic approach. I have visions, let them cook a bit first.
I do write most days. Sometimes, every day. I'm schizophrenic and suffer with periods of cognitive malfunction and avolition. So it's not always possible. But I also do a lot of the work in my mind, before writing anything, like Muriel Spark.
I never get block. I always have something to write about. But I like to meditate on ideas and visions. I use imagery from dreams, visions, hallucinations. I sometimes let these ideas percolate through my conscious, a process of alchemy. The images received from my Demon, and processed through conscious. From dream, meditation, Active Imagination, schizophrenic hallucination, delusion. Magic potions. In these altered states, I exist in a delirium, which is not always possible to write in.
However, I do also agree that practice is good, and I go through well phases of writing all the time. Sometimes, all day, others, just ten minutes. I never annoy me with a word count ambition. I'll often achieve 500 words a day, but sometimes, it's only 2 or 3 hundred, other times, a thousand or more.
I don't think writing every day is necessary. I heard several famous authors say they rest between books. Muriel Spark talks of doing work in her head before writing. Whatever works is best. My way isn't the prescribed method. I have a more Mystic approach. I have visions, let them cook a bit first.
I do write most days. Sometimes, every day. I'm schizophrenic and suffer with periods of cognitive malfunction and avolition. So it's not always possible. But I also do a lot of the work in my mind, before writing anything, like Muriel Spark.
I never get block. I always have something to write about. But I like to meditate on ideas and visions. I use imagery from dreams, visions, hallucinations. I sometimes let these ideas percolate through my conscious, a process of alchemy. The images received from my Demon, and processed through conscious. From dream, meditation, Active Imagination, schizophrenic hallucination, delusion. Magic potions. In these altered states, I exist in a delirium, which is not always possible to write in.
However, I do also agree that practice is good, and I go through well phases of writing all the time. Sometimes, all day, others, just ten minutes. I never annoy me with a word count ambition. I'll often achieve 500 words a day, but sometimes, it's only 2 or 3 hundred, other times, a thousand or more.