Wondering About the Best Way to Actually Write?

 I offer this thanks to Literary Hub's Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in Praise of Unconventional Writing Practices; In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast:

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: People talk about that conventional writing process idea where you sit down in the morning with your cup of Earl Grey, and then you pet the cat, and then you sit there for like six hours in front of the computer and don’t stop. If I’m in front of the computer for more than—I mean, honestly, I shouldn’t be in front of the computer for more than 15 minutes to not be in pain. But I sometimes do still get into that mode, so then I might be in front of the computer for an hour. But I’m always leaving and then coming back. I guess what I say now—you know, people say, what’s your advice for writing?—I just think if you write something every day, even if it is one sentence. Because that sentence might be the one. And it is really the continuity that allows for the sparks to emerge and the themes and the threads and the through lines—and also the breaks and the impasses.

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