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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work
by Mason Currey
- When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important t... See more
from "Discipline Is Destiny" by David Epstein
Britt Gage added
Rest in the World: My Morning Routine (Updated Edition)
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I’m inspired by Hunter S. Thompson’s (idealized) breakfast routine, but without the drugs; once a day, he’d spend ~2 hours to sync up with all his responsibilities, but the majority of his day was in unpredictable creative divergence.
Michael Dean added
My only ritual for writing is that I do it every morning. I wake up and get to work.
from This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley