Recall Boice’s (1990) experiment described in Chapter 2. In that study, struggling writers wrote more when they simply followed a schedule—that’s all it took. They probably didn’t enjoy it, and they probably spent much of their scheduled time scowling at a blank page, but they sat down and wrote a couple good paragraphs in between scowls. Struggling writers who waited until they “felt like it,” in contrast, wrote almost nothing.
