Mark Hamilton describes how a dock worker became a successful writer through structured "mini days" at the public library: dedicated days for reading, grammar study, writing practice, and research. Starting with poor drafts, repeated practice transformed his work into near-poetic prose.
Set up a reading mini day. He set up an intense grammar study mini day. Now, back then they had no electronics, so he would go to the public library for hours and study books on grammar. Then he developed a writing mini day, which his initial writings were terrible. But he worked and developed and worked and developed to the point where his writings became his prose was in many cases practically poetic. And then he had a self education at the library. Self education just in general. And you could conceivably say he have had another, yet another mini day. But I think it kind of blends in with the self education and I call that research many day. So he had these four or five mini days that he worked around his incredible stagnant rutning.
