I would, for a four-week period, ruthlessly clear my diary and go on what we somewhat mysteriously called a “Crash”. During the Crash, I would do nothing but write from 9 am to 10.30pm, Monday through Saturday. Id get one hour off for lunch and two for dinner. I’d not see, let alone answer, any mail, and would not go near the phone. No one would come to the house. Lorna, despite her own busy schedule, would for this period do my share of the cooking and housework. In this way, so we hoped, I’d not only complete more work quantitively, but reach a mental state in which my fictional world was more real to me than the actual one. # The reason of sharing this is not that he completed his novel in just four weeks, but that he banged it down, and didnt compromise on what he as a writer had decided to follow - A NOTE TO US ;)
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:23:13 +0000