Four pages a day

I’m on a relatively long break and felt like reading a good fantasy book after concluding the Night Watch trilogy and sequel. I didn’t have any pending fantasy books (gasp!), though I do have a few contemporary fiction to finish, but I just didn’t feel like reading them yet. I decided to re-read a favourite of mine (no, not Lord of The Rings, although it's one of my favourites) but Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series. I also read the Valdemar companion book I bought a few years back. It was fun reading about how Lackey came up with the concept of Valdemar and its Heralds. The book also included an interview with the author and one excerpt stood out for me:

“The only way to become a writer is to write. Don’t talk about it; glue your behind to the chair and write, at least four pages every day, even if you end up throwing them out. If you can’t make that time, you aren’t a writer. You have to motivate yourself; no one else can do that for you. If you can’t do that, you are never going to be a writer. Write until you’ve finished a book, then send it out and write another one. And keep doing it until somebody buys one. It’s just that simple.”