5-Bullet Friday — Voice-to-Text That Works, Writing Rules and Routines from Masters, Miyazaki’s Creative Process, and More
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5-Bullet Friday — Voice-to-Text That Works, Writing Rules and Routines from Masters, Miyazaki’s Creative Process, and More
“My experience has been that most really serious creative people I know have very, very routine and not particularly glamorous work habits,”
Mason Currey • Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might add up to the same four hours, but are not nearly as productive as an unbroken four. If I know that I am going to be interrupted, I can’t concentrate, and if I suspect that I mig... See more
Neal Stephenson • Neal Stephenson - Why I Am a Bad Correspondent
“I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning
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