Quantity prodices quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
–Ray Bradbury–
We're reaching the end of NaNoWriMo's first week and the net is a bit ablaze with talks of why it's good for you, why it's bad for you, and why it's anything in between. As for me, even though I am struggling a little to write these days (that's because I am so shattered in the evening; I drive for three hours a day to get somewhere that is only nine miles from home), I really do miss it when I don't. I feel like ideas are bursting out of my skull and that my life isn't lived but survived if I don't put ink to paper. I'll tell you something else: I've started to write during lunch as well, on sheets that I rip out of my non descript pad and which I then fold and hide in my bag (note the hide thing: my PhD supervisor said to me once that, for a writer, writing is like a secret lover. It has stayed with me, in every sense). But there are odd experiments going on all the time and I wonder whether someone who absolutely must write would become more or less productive after a self-imposed break.
Don't write anything for a week.
Disclaimer: do not try this if you struggle to write at the best of times.
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