Write every day

Well duh, I seem to have heard that advice before.

Recently I’ve been getting a little disaffected blogging every day over at the regular blog, Comic By Comic. I was putting stuff up there virtually every day, more than often more than once. And it’s not that I don’t love the comics. It’s that writing every day about them, even if it’s just for a couple of paragraphs was kind of wiping me out.

Here’s the thing; I’m no John Scalzi. Clearly. With, you know, not having published any awesome books (well, any books), not being a creative consultant on any TV shows (although call me, I can free up some time) and not having a blog read by what I imagine to be…well, a lot of people every day.

My point is that Scalzi writes on his blog almost every day in addition to all the other stuff he does. Quite often, these aren’t fluff pieces; they’re hundreds of words long. They’re essays. They’re thought-provoking. It’s depressing. It makes you feel a tiny wee bit inadequate. But then I remember – he’s a professional writer.

This is what he does for a living now. He doesn’t have to sit at a desk doing a regular, boring ass job for nine or ten hours a day. I do – and what that means is that the limited time I have to write (and, yes, I say that although some of my blogging is done at work) has to be productive.

And that means that I’m scaling back on the comic blogging – and since I started doing that last week, I’ve actually found that I’m more productive in the screenwriting. I have twelve pages of a screenplay done since I pulled back on the blogging – and that’s included a couple of days when I was under the weather.

So I guess I’ve finally learned my lesson – write every day, just not necessarily on the blog.

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