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 ...