This book is why I was finally able to get my daily word count up. Full stop. Maybe I learned more about writing over the years from various structure books and good ol’ Strunk & White, but when it comes to getting actual results, simply learning how to write ideas down as they come to you (and that you should just write down whatever comes to you) was incredibly helpful.
It’s a little sad that the best writing advice I’ve received seems like such common sense after the fact. It can’t be helped. Maybe I’m just a little too self-conscious about my poor performance… or perhaps not self-conscious enough. A weird part of the whole “writing community” is how macho it seems to be about word count, discipline, and so on.
It’s been a year or so since I read the book, so I don’t have much to say, but I wanted to put it on here (as a real book-mark) in case other folks have the same issues that I have.