JMS Writes for long periods - how?

[msweller]

I read in a magazine recently that JMS' rewrite for Ninja Assassin was done in 58 hours with barely a break to sleep and drink coffee.

How does he do it? If I write for more than a few hours at a time my back is killing me! Does JMS have a really nice chair? Does he stop for breaks? Does he have a really cool ergonomic computer set up?

[Jan]

I imagine that practice has a lot to do with it. He's been writing 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for decades now.

Jan

[JasonDavis]

How does he do it? If I write for more than a few hours at a time my back is killing me! Does JMS have a really nice chair? Does he stop for breaks? Does he have a really cool ergonomic computer set up?

He gets up and stretches periodically. He must. Or he's inhuman.

Jason "I write eight hours most days with breaks every hour to walk around the room" Davis

[JoeD80]

Well it would appear that he doesn't get up when he's writing:

I use the net as a break from writing. When I hit a point where I need to think about the next scene, rather than leave the desk and go watch TV, which will kill an hour or more, I go online, which keeps me at the keyboard. I noodle a bit, during which my brain works out the story problem, and zing, I'm back into the writing again.

I may be one of the few who uses writing as a break from writing....

[AstroBoy]

He gets up and stretches periodically. He must. Or he's inhuman.

DING! Got it in one. No not THE One.