Typical Day of Productive Writing:
10 minutes opening windows and doors to let the cool air in
1 hour drinking coffee, eating breakfast, watching news, and checking social media.
45 minutes working out
10 minutes to close all the windows and doors to keep the now hot air out.
20 minutes sitting down at my computer and staring out the window to see what the neighbors are doing.
1 hour rereading my book outline and marking it up in red ink.
5 minutes coming up with a brand new title to Chapter 26.
30 minutes staring at the otherwise blank screen
45 minutes for lunch
10 minutes checking social media again and posting pithy memes.
45 minutes to walk to post office and back
2 minutes tossing all the mail into the trash because it's all junk.
45 minutes deleting unwanted emails
2 minutes reading the desirable emails
1 hour and 55 minutes slugging through my editor’s most recent heavily notated changes to my manuscript.
20 minutes cursing and kicking the furniture
5 minutes putting a bandaid on my toe because I forgot I was wearing flip flops
30 minutes to eat dinner
4 and 1/2 hours of pounding out non-stop, brilliantly conceived stream-of-consciousness writing, worthy of a Pulitzer Prize, all while ignoring my wife calling out from downstairs, "are you going to be up there all night?"
1 hour of rereading what I just wrote, slashing it to pieces in disgust, turning off the lights and going to bed.
1 hour drinking coffee, eating breakfast, watching news, and checking social media.
45 minutes working out
10 minutes to close all the windows and doors to keep the now hot air out.
20 minutes sitting down at my computer and staring out the window to see what the neighbors are doing.
1 hour rereading my book outline and marking it up in red ink.
5 minutes coming up with a brand new title to Chapter 26.
30 minutes staring at the otherwise blank screen
45 minutes for lunch
10 minutes checking social media again and posting pithy memes.
45 minutes to walk to post office and back
2 minutes tossing all the mail into the trash because it's all junk.
45 minutes deleting unwanted emails
2 minutes reading the desirable emails
1 hour and 55 minutes slugging through my editor’s most recent heavily notated changes to my manuscript.
20 minutes cursing and kicking the furniture
5 minutes putting a bandaid on my toe because I forgot I was wearing flip flops
30 minutes to eat dinner
4 and 1/2 hours of pounding out non-stop, brilliantly conceived stream-of-consciousness writing, worthy of a Pulitzer Prize, all while ignoring my wife calling out from downstairs, "are you going to be up there all night?"
1 hour of rereading what I just wrote, slashing it to pieces in disgust, turning off the lights and going to bed.
(Note to self: repeat all the above tomorrow. )
(Rick Trice)
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