/lit/ - Literature

Your honor, my client has not been procrastinating all day. True, he has not written a single word into the document containing his manuscript, but this is only a quantitative measure of his output. What we should concern ourselves with is the qualitative.
My client read a Michael Crichton book today, from cover to cover. Eaters of the Dead, it's called. Perhaps you know the story better by the name of the movie based on it, the 13th Warrior? Starring Antonio Banderas? No?
At any rate this book deals with some of the same themes my client's work touches on. People of different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds meeting, mingling and befriending one another. Is not reading one of the masters exactly what a would-be writer should do? Is it not always decried that /wg/ does not read?
I put it to you, your honor, that my client has spent this day conducting research, not procrastinating.
Now he has, having finished the book, mostly watched youtube videos and lurked 4chan. That is very true. But do ideas not require time to percolate in the brain? Is it not taught to us in school that what we study only truly imprints into our minds after good night's sleep?
Your honor, my client is perfectly productive on this fine Sunday. Claims that he should spend one of his free days to write, say, 1k words, are purely born out of ignorance. Ignorance of the creative process. Pseuds and crabs, meerkats and anime writers. These are ill names to call anyone, and my client does not count himself among their number. It is not by the number of words that a work is truly made, but by their quality.
I believe, firmly, that tomorrow he will make up for the lack of apparent progress today, that tomorrow we will see 2k words, easily.