I forget specifically who said it, but one of the best pieces of advice I ever received about writing was to consistently do something every day. Keep it reasonable, but every day, without fail, do something.
A few hundred words, fifteen minutes… it doesn’t matter, as long as you are consistent. It’s great advice… that I don’t often follow.
I try! I used to aim for 2K words a day, but that is difficult to achieve and maintain. It’s certainly possible, if I’m not doing much else, but even when I was averaging 2K a day it was more like 6 days of 1K and one day of 8K. And that’s difficult to maintain.
But these days I’m editing, and that’s pretty easy to manage a consistent amount of work. I edit two or three chapters, and then I do something else. If I’m lucky, I can repeat that a few times in a day, but even if I don’t, that’s still consistent work every day, pushing me closer to having this novel finished.
And as always, that’s the goal. Finish the novel. Write more novels! But finishing the novels is the most important part.
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!