I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I just don't write.
Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.
Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.
I write a diary every day.
Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.
I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.
I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.
I've kept a diary since I was seven years old, and I still write in mine.
