Malaika Costello-Dougherty is a writing coach, writer, and educator in San Francisco.

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5 minute blog post 

One thing that keeps coming up with my writing coach clients is how long to spend writing. How much time it takes to type out a page or two or three. (What I recommend as daily goals.) And I keep saying that you can get a lot of writing done in 45 minutes a day. In fact, you can do a lot with 20 minutes a day. That it doesn’t have to be a 2-hour block. This doesn’t have to be a daily long-distance run. It can in fact be as I described to a writer/editor friend over lunch the other day a series of sprints. 

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