Ian LeTourneau’s Writing Routine
By Ian LeTourneau • Sep 6th, 2009 • Category: Feature Post, Writing RoutinesFor a while, I bemoaned the fact that I couldn’t find time to write everyday, which is something that at least makes you feel as though you are a writer. But then I found a copy of Sylvia Plath’s Letters Home-actually a first edition (for fifty cents!) in excellent shape at a local library sale-and read it cover to cover. On page 147, I read this: “The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time.” Plath’s aim at around this time was to have 20 pieces out at magazines. That gave me a wake-up call, as a writer. I would stop bemoaning and start producing.
