a lot of writing is just patiently waiting and observing for an idea or story to synthesize 

this is hard to do with a grind set mindset. It’s more like bird watching and no one looks to the best bird watchers for productivity advice

This is exactly why writing is slow. If you only measure time spent hammering out words, you’re missing most of it.

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Somewhere on the Mary Oliver/Neil Young continuum. Write everyday vs if you can't write a song in 5 minutes walk away. Patience for inspiration, but be there when it happens. Just my thoughts, and this is across mediums. I think about this a LOT! Love hearing other artists talk about this.

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Totally! Input of some sort for every medium, and I get that for writing. There was a time in my life where I read War and Peace in two translations. And now, I have kids. Some songwriters even take years to write songs. I think maybe Leonard Cohen. Don't quote me. Cheers, mad respect

For writing specifically, I think reading everyday is critical, especially challenging works. This is how one learns what’s worth writing in the first place. Its also humbling to know that some works took over a decade to fully plan, write, digest, revise etc

This makes perfect sense, thank you. Sharpen the sword for when it's time to swing, right? Very cool

Writing every day is good because it's the writer equivalent to a musician "practicing their scales."

But just like playing scales isn't playing a song, not every writing session needs to produce something publishable—or even coherent.