Write for one hour a day - timed

This is a totally new way of writing for me! I’ve been a professional writer (copywriting, novelist, etc.) for almost 16 years, so writing for just an hour felt insane to me. I had the exact same feeling of, “But I’m in it! I have to keep going!” I really get into hyperfocus and will, like, forget to pee. No joke. But that’s not good (or was probably never good) for my body. So yes, there are still times I have to write in sprints. But most of the time, writing for one hour a day and then walking away is completely new training ground for me. And weirdly, I’m learning that I don’t lose the momentum. It’s often easier to come back the next day because I left while I still had somewhere to go. And I don’t exhaust myself. I’m finding that my writing during that hour is pretty good compared to my writing in, say, hour four.

Also instead of going hard on a novel writing sprint and then abandoning it for 2 months… that doesn’t happen anymore now that I’m just writing for 1 hour a day consistently. I wrote two books last year this way?! Like what?!?

this is so affirming to hear and daunting—my brain is still computing this idea of stopping when it feels so hard to just start