Regularity

On the subject of writing patterns and motivation the crime/comedy author Malcolm Pryce had this to add, yesterday evening;

'I think you will find it a lot easier if you disabuse yourself of the notion that there is one single answer to the question. Some authors spend the whole day at the keyboard, keeping basically office hours. Others are more like Chandler writing for three or four hours, some in the morning, some at night, some in the middle of the night. Trollope I believe wrote from 6am to noon every day, even when terribly ill. Others do a set amount of words, some a thousand, some more. Grahame Greene, I think, did a thousand words and would stop in mid-sentence when he reached the magic number. As for me, I always write first thing in the morning - work first, wash later - and, at the beginning of a novel, will do about two to three hours. Later in the process this might rise to four or five. The only correct routine is the one which works, but regularity is the key, I think.'

I had recently come to the conclusion that working in a regular pattern would help, and this is of course something I have proposed to start. The problem of real life getting in the way is something I'll have to overcome or work around. For now though, I will keep those times as allocated in the previous post so I can work on a short piece.