[weeksie]

Write every day is great advice. It works because you have to be sitting in the chair if you want to have any output. You don't build an app by waiting for the inspiration to strike, you instead show up the office five days per week, six to eight hours per day, and build stuff.

As for slip-ups, uh, well, it happens. If you're so rigid that missing a day of writing screws up your entire plan and you give up on your book project then maybe you're not really that into the idea of writing. See: skipping a day at the gym, having a sick day at work.

I'm all for reducing cognitive overhead and using clever productivity hacks but at some point it's just necessary to do the fucking work.