Yesterday I was asked - again - by someone I met at a party, "Do you have to be terribly self-disciplined to write?" and I said - "If the book is going well, writing is the only thing I want to do. I don't need self discipline."
The book has been going well for the last three weeks, and that is all I have been doing. And if you say to someone - a partner maybe - "I don't have time to do
a/ the household accounts
b/ the cleaning
c/the gardening
d/ my tax return
because the writing is going really well and I don't want to stop and anyway I have very nearly finished the first draft" - they would have to be churlish to say "Tough - do the jobs!" wouldn't they?
Now I have finished the first draft, and I need self-discipline to do all the household jobs. Aaarghhh!
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