When it's time to write, the most trivial tasks suddenly seem irresistable — balancing the checkbook, straightening up the office, looking out the window. In this blog post, Nancy Whichard offers a tip from detective novelist Raymond Chandler, who devoted four hours per day to writing. “Chandler says that during the scheduled four hours each day there are 'two very simple rules, a. you don’t have to write. b. you can’t do anything else. The rest comes of itself.' ”
