ieva melgalve

So I’ve done 130 pages right now and it’s clear that instead of 5 chapters (150 pages) as I planned, this will take 6 chapters (180 pages). And yes, I’m back in my productive mood, sort of. I am, as always, dissatisfied with how little I actually do, and I’m quite sure I could be [...]

Yesterday, I realized that constant, successful writing takes two things: freedom and discipline. Discipline, not “forcing yourself to write and punishing yourself for not doing so”, but “allotting time to write and sticking to it, sitting down, writing and enjoying the thing, too”. It’s possible. Just yesterday, I re-read the beginning of Flowers, and I [...]