"First and foremost, and I cannot stress this enough: do not sit down at the keyboard and write on a..."

“First and foremost, and I cannot stress this enough: do not sit down at the keyboard and write on a regular basis. This is a trap. You can tell yourself that you’re only doing it to scratch an itch, but the siren clickclickabulation of the dancing keys will do more than merely produce words on a page. It will condition you to want, nay, to need to do it each and every day.


And if that happens, there is simply no way, in the long run, to avoid the most lamentable and horrible fate of finishing a novel.”

- Jim Butcher, on the siren call of writing.