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Writing Excuses Shares Newton's Laws of Writing

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Daniel Andrlik
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Daniel Andrlik lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. By day he manages product teams. The rest of the time he is a podcast host and producer, writer of speculative fiction, a rabid reader, and a programmer.
  1. A word count at rest will tend to stay at rest, and a word count in motion will tend to stay in motion.
  2. Word count = Motivation * Focus
  3. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. When you write words, they write back. Writing is its own reward.

— Howard Taylor, Writing Excuses, Episode 11.04 — Newton’s Laws of Writing

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