Hey Larry;
I’ve been prodded along a few times to use as much free time as I can to get some writing done (of course, I was already behind schedule when that was happening). The kicker is finding a balance.
Personally, I can’t write for more than 2 or 3 hours a day. I’ve tried. The results were bad. Likewise, I can’t sustainably code for much more than 4 or 5 hours a day either. Those are my paces. I don’t know about my writing, but I’d pit my 4 hours of coding up against most peoples 12 hours.
Experiment a bit. You’re keeping metrics, so try adding another pomodoro or two. Measure how much you write across each one. Two pomodoros is on my low side, but I end each day with more to say. That makes it that much easier to start up again tomorrow.
-T