I came across this interview with Jake Tapper on The Bulwark podcast.
And then I try to write for at least fifteen minutes a day every day when I’m in the middle of a writing project because even if I’m busy, everybody has fifteen minutes a day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, whatever.
And if that’s all you do that week, that’s still an hour forty five. That’s two pages maybe. And That’s the lesson is I wrote a novel in my twenties. Mhmm. It didn’t get published.
And then I put it down. And then I didn’t try to do fiction again for another, like, twenty years. And if you don’t sit down and write, then that will happen to you too. Twenty years will go by and you haven’t written a word of fiction, or you’ve written a word, but you know, you never finished anything. And it can happen like that unless you have the the schedule and make yourself abide by it.
Jake Tapper: “All the Demons Are Here” - The Bulwark Podcast
Success isn't guaranteed if you do the work but it will not happen if you don't. That's important to remember.
