“I’ve tried to overcome not having orderly spaces by substituting compulsion for discipline, so that when something is urgently there, urgently seen or understood, or the metaphor was powerful enough, then I would move everything aside and write for sustained periods of time.”

—Daily Routines: Toni Morrison, via haunted

I keep writing the word DISCIPLINE is big letters, everywhere. I wrote one that says WRITE MORE THAN 1 HOUR EVERY FUCKING DAY.

It is very intricate and involved block letters and all sorts of leftover scrapbooking paper*, my guess is that it took about an hour. I keep having these visions, these bursts of energy and great hope— I will COVER MY WALLS WITH WORDS I will make lists of everything and compile it all and I will make little lists of how i expect everything to unfold and how.

But it seems all I have the discipline to do is write my self inspirational sticky notes.