Nicholas Bate –

1. Write every day, rain or shine.
2. Write every day whatever your mood.
3. Write more and more. Write on boats and planes and trains and in a queue and while waiting for the storm-cloud to pass.
4. Write for quantity. Then edit for quality.
5. Write fingers on keyboard, pencil on paper, chalk on board, stick on sand. Texture changes aspect.
6. Write without needing praise, without needing publication and with knowledge that you are on a quest to find you not replicate the famous author.
7. Write today.