Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.