What’s does your writing day look like?

​1000 words? 1500? Write all morning and party all afternoon. Like Hemmingway, do you have a standing desk and write standing up? All our perfectly valid as long as you are WRITING.
 
Are you a daily devotee of Elements of Style? Do you practice Saving the Cat or do you prefer the ancient philosophy of The War of Art or Zen and the Art of Writing? Quite commendable but none of them will do you any good unless you are WRITING.
 
It is simple and been said over and over again by many writers much better than me. Do get good, you have to write gooder. No, that wasn’t it. Let me try that again. You need to write ever day. Exercise the muscle. 
 
Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond (and not Cubby Broccoli as some might suggest), was famous for writing fast and never letting the editing process slow his output down. Number one priority for him was the output of words. 
 
“I don't even pause from writing to choose the right word or to verify spelling or a fact,” he explained. “All this can be done when your book is finished.”
 
I love this quote. How many of us write and then go over thousands of times, never getting any further. Plenty of time for rewrites. Son of Ravage took a year to write and two years to edit. Why? Because that’s the way I roll.
 
Whatever your practice, do it every day. Your fiction will thank you for it.