April 7th, 2022

The most frequent question I often get is ‘How do you find the time to fit it all in.’ All, presumably, being a full-time job, a parent, exercising, socializing, reading and writing books. How? Do you sleep three hours a night? No, actually, I almost always sleep almost eight hours a night.

One big key is to make consistent, everyday progress. You don’t write a book in a day, or a week, or a month. You write it one word at a time. One day, one hour, at a time.

The other big secret? Divide all those to-do item into distinct categories and it’s alright to be a little selfish, too. 1) things I need to do, 2) things I want to do, and 3) things other people want me to do. You probably won’t get to number 3 very often. Don’t feel guilty. It’s called having boundaries.

Here are 3 crime fiction links, 2 quotes, and 1 question for this week:

2 QUOTES

Quotes from Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff this week:

  • “A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there’s something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.”
  • “Because of who we were, I already knew what we would do.”


1 QUESTION

  • Did you watch the Netflix adaptation of Pollock’s THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME? What did you think?

Until next Thursday, happy reading,

Mike

Author the Max Strong thriller series

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