A Writer's Habit
When it comes to being organized, efficient with time, and disciplined in my endeavors, the word FAIL always springs to mind. Articles about writers and how they write (wrote) gives clear indication that some were extremely organized while others possessed peculiar habits and still more remained staunch believers in superstition. Truman Capote is relate-able because he, like me, never wrote a word on a Friday -- his being a superstition thing, and mine being because that's my day off. In the book Odd Type Writers by Celia Blue Johnson, I discovered that I can also relate to James Joyce and Dorothy Parker: A minority, however, measured quantity as inversely proportional to quality. James Joyce proudly considered the completion of two perfect sentences a full day of work and Dorothy Parker, an obsessive reviser, even skewed to the negative, once lamented, “I can’t write five words but that I change seven.” My kind of people, them. ;-) From Writer's R...