DINTY MOORE: I'm a firm believer in writing every day if you can, five days a week if-- when my daughter was born, I kind of said, well, maybe I'll spend weekends with my family. But especially when you're working on something long-- a longer essay or a story or a book-- you'll need to keep it alive in your head. And if you walk away for two weeks and come back, the world dissipates that you're-- so I really believe-- not everybody can do seven days, not everybody can do five days, but a really regular schedule where you touch base, even if only-- depending on your time, even if only for 20 minutes a day. But you just remain, let that keep churning in your head. So I'm a firm believer in that.
The only way, I guess, my writing process has changed is I didn't know that at the beginning and eventually started learning that as long as I kept at it in a regular schedule, the work became better. My mind would work out things in the shower. I'd be falling asleep and I'd be thinking about the story I was writing and jump up and write something. So that's the habit, is regularity.