Nat Bennett, How to write:
- Write a lot
- Just Write
- Read a lot
- Write every day
- Walk
- Have a time and a place for writing
- Take it less seriously
- Have an audience
At least as good as any advice I’ve ever given!
There’s lots of reasons that this works but I personally believe that writing is a mechanical skill as much as it is a mental one. Sometimes you just need to run a bunch of words through your writing engine — practice the whole process, from forming a sentence in your brain down to driving the motion of your fingers — to reduce the friction to a point where you can do “real” writing.
As above for writing, so goes for any iterative, world-building creative activity. p.s. coding is an iterative activity wherein a world of thought-stuff is created (and sometimes checked against a computer by executing it and seeing if it all blows up.)
