I guess I can’t NOT write. I don’t write every day and I beat myself up over that often. The greats say that you should write every day.
Ursula Le Guin wrote every single day from 7:15 am to noon. The writer’s life is one of leisure and a lot of contemplation as you can see from Ursula’s now famous schedule. She was quoted in a 1976 interview with Luna Monthly saying, “Some of us are Norman Mailer, but others of us are middle-aged Portland housewives.” Maybe Ursula felt that she belonged to the middle-aged housewives category, but she also enjoyed a sixty-year career and produced a massive body of work including six books. Her daily schedule was as follows:
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