Nicolas Cole argues that writers improve fastest by maximizing daily writing hours. A ghostwriter logging ten hours daily will develop skill far faster than someone writing two hours after a full-time job. Time spent writing is the real constraint holding most writers back.
What is the true constraint keeping me from accomplishing whatever goal I want to accomplish as a writer? Especially if you're someone who's working a full time job and you're going, how do I fit my writing into my life? How do I make this thing that I'm passionate about more predominant? And maybe to the point where it replaces your full time job. The core constraint is your bottleneck is a lack of skill. You need to get better at the thing that you're trying to get good at. And what is the constraint of getting better? It's time in a very binary sense. Which writer is going to acquire more skill faster? The WR who works eight hours a day and then writes for two hours a day at night? Or the writer who is a ghostwriter who writes eight hours a day and then works another two hours on their own writing at night so they're doing 10 hours a day. Which writer is going to get better faster? It's as simple as that. The very first thing you want to solve for is how do I spend as many hours as possible each day writing.
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