If you are trying to write while holding a job, it is important for you to have a certain length of time every day or every weekend which is sacred, and during which there are no interruptions. In a way, this is easier to arrange if you live with someone, because that person can answer a doorbell or a telephone. There must be hundreds of writers who are trying to write a novel on weekends and in the evenings. Five evenings a week of two or three hours’ work each evening, or every Saturday for eight hours, or four evenings per week of three hours—a writer must make his own schedule and stick to
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