on CNN and he seemed like a pretty down to Earth guy. What really hit me was the author said Bradbury wrote 1000 words a day.
I read 'On Writing: A memoir of the craft' by Stephen King and it answered a lot of questions for me and affirmed some ideas I had about writing for years. King says he writes four hours a day, 4000 words a day.
To me, that's a lot. When I finally decided to write, I thought I'd try to complete one short story a week. That hasn't quite happened, but one short story every two weeks isn't bad for a start.
But, 1000 words a day, that is not really a lot at all. My last post was around 750 words. I can do that, already know when I could get that many words written. We have three kids, 6, 8 and 16 so the house is a hectic, chaotic, noisy place until the two younger ones go to bed. The 16 year old is a hermit and stays in her room most of the time.
So, after 9pm or so I'd have plenty of time to write. All it would take was disconnecting my eyes from the TV and typing away for an hour or so.
That definitely sounds like a good plan.
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