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“Pace yourself” is a general rule that can be applied to anything in life.

claim that you could work in blocks of multiple hours and never socialise with other writers and see the same results?

Yep. There were some writers that were straight up bed-ridden. They would laugh at your little ruleset.

Lastly, I wasn’t downvoted. A reasonable amount of people seem to agree.

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It's not my little ruleset and I agree that a writer doesn't have to hang out with other writers to get work done, or work in blocks of exactly 10 to 50 minutes; I just think you were very vague and never gave a specific objection to the content of the rules, which is quite a spineless thing to do. Prof. Robert Boice may be wrong, but at least his positions are stated clearly enough that we can see they're wrong.

> Yep. There were some writers that were straight up bed-ridden. They would laugh at your little ruleset.

C'mon, we all know exceptions just prove the rules :)

I'm sure there's many coders out there who write their code with only one finger in each hand. That does not render "learn to touch type with all 10 fingers" as invalid advice.

I guess it's all perspective. I've always looked at exceptions as a base case.

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