Productive writers dedicate a modest portion of their day to writing to prevent intimidation and resentment.

“found that the most consistently productive writers were the ones who made their writing work only a modest moderate part of their of their days and their weeks um because it sort of didn't it this meant that it didn't become something um intimidating there weren't these sort of huge psycho dramas with having your life dominated by these tasks you didn't start to they didn't start to resent it or to procrastinate on it for that reason it was just this kind of modest thing and then the consistently applied over over days and days and days and weeks the the out really built up uh much much more rapidly than the people who would sort of Swing wildly back and forth between putting in huge numbers of hours and exhausting themselves and then not being able to do it for uh for for days after that because they were because they were too tired”

“Robert Boyce the professor you're talking about found that the most consistently productive writers were the ones who made their writing work only a modest moderate part of their of their days and their weeks”