Lucas would treat the writing of Star Wars as a full-time job, trudging up the stairs to his writing room each morning at 9 a.m., where he would then lower himself slowly into his wooden desk chair and stare at a blank page for hours, waiting for the words to come. “I sit at my desk for eight hours a day no matter what happens, even if I don’t write anything,” he explained. “It’s a terrible way to live. But I do it; I sit down and I do it. I can’t get out of my chair until five o clock or five thirty.… It’s like being in school. It’s the only way I can force myself to write.”
