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Follow Stephen King’s Advice in 2022
Standing up is for sissies and failed authors
I read On Writing and I got one simple message.
Turns out Stephen King can write better and more prolifically and more profitably high on booze and drugs than I can sober.
This was unsurprising to me.
His credo is direct and unequivocal: the butt must be in the seat six hours a day, five days a week (or was it six?) or else you might as well throw in the towel and go back to being a high school English teacher.
If returning to a classroom and grading grimy notebook paper essays isn’t a horror story, I don’t know what is.
I definitely can sit for six hours. That’s the easy part, but I have a bad case of buttus interruptus.
But in 2022, the Year of the Slug, I shall strive for more.
The Honest Assessment
Taking a page out of the AA Big Book, I took a fearless and searching moral inventory of my actual writing behavior vs. my big fat stupid bullshit ideas.
The idealized version goes like this:
1 / Up at 6, drink water
