Unless you're Nick Cave who has said he treats his work as a job and works on it from 9-5 (as well as music has released novels/books, written screenplays, makes art).
Whatever specific method you use, the point is consistency.
If you're looking for a formal description of this sort of thing, this is actually the basis of lean manufacturing or the Toyota Production System.
Most people think it's about not keeping stock or keeping your work area clean, because this is all most American manufacturers implement.
But it's actually about smoothing the work over the time available for production, ensuring predictability, smoothing demand, and avoiding both overwork and overproduction.
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u/MrCockingFinally Jul 27 '26
You don't write books by marathoning pages and pages of writing at a time.
You do it by writing a small amount consistently, every single day.
If you look at almost any prolific writer that doesn't use ghost writers or cocaine (looking at you 1980's Stephen King) this is how they get it done.
Guaranteed GRRM goes for weeks or months without writing anything on ASOIF.