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Get started today at constant contact.com. You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show So I always like to ask other professional authors how do you write do you have a

pattern a system every day or you just catch a can or what your mode? I get up. I do my first thing in the

morning stuff. I do my wordle, you know, a couple other rituals and then I sit down I try to when I'm in production

mode I try to avoid what I call flying monkeys which are things that come out of

nowhere and stress me out and distract me, you know, like, oh my God, I have to pay my taxes or, you know, what have you.

So if I can successfully avoid those I sit down and I try to pick up where I left off the day before I write with a fountain pen on paper.

I have a bunch of fountain pens, so I change each day

from one pen to the next so I can see where the brakes are. I try to stop kind of in mid paragraph or mid sentence even because

it's easier than to get going the next day when I'm kind of right in the middle of something.

And usually I'll go for an hour and a half two hours write a few pages and then when I stop I typically

will have some thoughts that will continue kind of coming into my head for a few minutes afterwards

so I carry my phone around and I make little voice memos you know here's the idea for a good line of dialogue or whatever.

And then I try to do something completely unrelated for the remainder of the day.

Oh, interesting.

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