As a person who’s also used writing as therapy and openly published my healing process online, that is real writing. There is no better or worse writing, there’s just doing what flows through.

If that author has a process that works for him, awesome. If you want to be a multiple best seller and you think you can get there by emulating his routine, by all means.

But in the creative field, just like life, there’s value in diversity. To have allowed that lovely and sometimes bitch of a muse to be a guide to you for so long, to suddenly turn your back on her and ‘make yourself sit down and achieve a daily word count’ seems self defeating. As they say, dance with the one who brought you…