... and how does a chair relate to determination?
This is how a book or story has to start.
Something rings in my head, like Great Tom. A knell...
Then I must invoke the magic word.
Oh, yes -- there is one.
All truly successful writers know it.
I shall whisper it in your ear:
BIC.
It stands for
Butt In Chair.
Really. Hard work is the only real magic there is...if the book in your head is to get onto the page.
"Take Joy" (p. 84)
Oh, and what a chair it is! The most creative, writery chair of my acquaintance. Something Hemingway would happily sit in whilst smoking and drinking gin.
The various chairs around our house have aided me in editing (re-writing) 3830 words of my 45000 word story. Three days of work: one thousand words per day (minimum). They say Stephen King writes 2000 words per day, but he's special, I'm sure. Or, he has some amazing chairs.
Hopefully my chairs will continue to cooperate in the next month, as I pull and push my characters around a dusty town in North Africa.