Known as the "humanoid typewriter", Nishio Restoration, a prolific Japanese light novel writer, was interviewed by a well-known Japanese HOBO journal company, revealing that his time management method is a HOBO journal and a timer, and he writes an average of 20,000 words a day.

The HOBO journal is a very famous calendar book in Japan, with 480,000 copies sold in the 2013 edition, and there are many enthusiasts in China. Nishio is also one of HOBO's fans, and he recently gave an interview to talk about his writing skills.

Nishio said that he does not use his journal to remember his inspirations, because he writes when he thinks of it, and if he forgets it, he thinks it is not a good idea. However, the more important content will be noted down for final proofreading.

(The following is an excerpt from the interview)

Nishio Restoration: It feels like running a sprint every day, and I take care not to write too much in one day, because if I write too much, I won't be able to write the next day. So I will prescribe the "number of words" to be written each day.

Q: Oh? Word count? How much do you write in 1 day?

Nishio: At the moment, it's basically 20,000 words a day.

Nishio: To put it in detail, it takes about two hours to write 5,000 words, with a break every two hours. In this way, it can be achieved by writing about 700 words in 15 minutes. So every 15 minutes, I look at the number of words, and if I write 600, I think, "Today is going to be a bit hard", and if I write 800 words, I think, "Today is in a good state".

Nishio: It's hard to think about how many words to write, but it's much easier to divide them this way, so I use the HOBO journal to count words and manage time.

Nishio Restoration also had another special method of using the journal, he would mark the number of free pages with Japanese kana, and when he heard an interesting word that he had never heard of, or found a word he liked very much, Nishio would write down the number of pages according to the kana at the beginning to make a "dictionary", and he hoped that in the future there would be some words that could be combined into a "Nishio dictionary".