Gary Will asked Ben Marcus:

Ben, So amazing you're answering questions! Thank you. How do you have the time? Seriously how do you fit in writing? What does a writing day look like? What does an average day look like, writing or not? Do you have tips for organization/productive practice?

Ben Marcus I do my best to work when I'm not teaching. I can usually find a bunch of hours in the week. Harder for me is working when I don't have anything I am excited about, like, uh, now. If I don't feel obsessed, I'd just rather do something else: make a dough, go two-wheeling. And yet I know that I will most likely only become obsessed through work. That's how I'll discover what I most want to do, hacking at nothing. I tend to give advice about this that I don't follow myself. Work anyway. Work relentlessly. Write something obviously terrible just to get some writing done. Then you can claw at until it's pretty, or ugly in a pretty way.

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