I get up fairly early, between 4:30 and 5:00. I’ll feed my cat, have coffee, and what have you. I begin work at maybe 6:30 or 7:00. I write six pages a day. I used to write 10. Now I’ve cut back and I write six pages a day, five days a week. And that’s my day. That writing part of my day is over.
Now I divide my writing into three very distinct operations. The pre-writing, which is research and getting ready to write, like creating characters, for example; the writing; and then the rewriting. So I’ll do my writing first. Then for the rest of the day, which might be from 10:00 on, maybe I’ll do some research or reading or maybe I’ll do outlines for something else. But my basic day is writing for four hours, which is very nice.
