On Writing in General

Writing is a funny animal.
There are blogs about it, papers, forewords, and afterwards. Everyone has something to say on the subject. The problem of course is that no has the same thing to say on writing. I remember in 10 (maybe 11th grade) writing was almost ruined for my by Piers Anthony. I had just finished reading one of his Xanth novels (a series I still love) and I decided to read his author's note at the end of the book. In it he said there was no such thing as writer's block, that writer's who say they have writer's block just aren't trying. This almost killed me. "Oh my god I thought. I'm a failure at writing." So I sat down, powered through my writer's block for a few years and wrote some terrible terrible things. Later on I had people telling me writer's block was ok that it happens. Then that I should write everyday. That I should write everyday for an hour. But in the end none of it felt right none of it worked. The thing about writing is that it is yours. truly and entirely yours, so that you have to write when you feel like and what you feel like it. There will be weeks I write everyday for hours, producing some good things and some bad. But then there will be week I don't write at all. It's all in what you feel comfortable with.
In the end you can't listen to any advice. You just have to do what makes you happy with your writing, and what will allow you to produce writing your happy with. If that means waking up an hour early to write for an hour than so be it. If it means taking a week or two off to recharge then do that. Just make sure that it never gets to a point where you want to stop writing.
-Max