Quickly or slowly, we'll get there

Sometimes I see blog posts by people who have just written (or are about to write) an entire book in a month, or a week, or some other amount of time I consider amazingly fast. I cheer for them, but sometimes I also sigh with a sort of longing.

And I say "a sort of" longing because even though part of me would like to write a novel that quickly, most of me doesn't even want to. Which is good, because that generally isn't the way I work.

I write every day. Sometimes it's one sentence. Sometimes ...