Like Jensen, Hayot recommends “protecting your writing time vigorously, both from others and from yourself” (p.
Plan to write “daily.” Eric Hayot suggests, “Write daily. This is the oldest trick in the book: accomplish psychologically difficult tasks by making them habitual. … Writing every day is difficult because everyone has any number of other things to do, most of which frighten them much less than writing. The key is to carve out a very small period of time for writing each day, putting it in both your physical and mental calendars, and convincing yourself that having that time is a way of taking care of yourself”(p. 18-19). Like Jensen, Hayot recommends “protecting your writing time vigorously, both from others and from yourself” (p. 19).