Seth Kaufman
The most important lesson I ever absorbed about writing came from reading that Graham Greene wrote 500 words a day. If you extrapolate this idea, this goal, this simple number it can be very powerful. I realized if I wrote 500 words a day, after 100 days I would have written 50,000 words. Or a short novel. Now, Graham Greene is one of my favorite writers and I realized my words were probably not going to be as good as his words. But I thought that if I put in the work on a constant basis, I would produce something. And that is the first step to becoming a writer -- writing, working at it, becoming disciplined enough to create material and hone it. That is where it starts.
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