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Routines are “time buckets” in your schedule, into which you put Actions. They are like the cook’s empty “nine-pans,” a mise-en-place for time. Routines are recurring. You may adjust them week to week, but ideally, your Routines should be just that: routine. Routines can fall into any one of the following categories.
Dan Charnas • Work Clean: The Life-Changing Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work and Mind
If you want to start a writing habit, don’t start with essays. Write paragraphs. Shaping and editing essays from a cold start is quite hard. Instead, practice riffing paragraphs over a huge range of ideas. Publish them all somewhere, but don’t blast them.
having a routine is such an important part of being a successful writer,
Lewis Jorstad • The Ten Day Draft: A Writer's Guide to Finishing a Novel in Ten Days (The Ten Day Novelist Book 2)
My only ritual for writing is that I do it every morning. I wake up and get to work.
Walter Mosley • This Year You Write Your Novel
Day Two: Developing a Routine
Lewis Jorstad • The Ten Day Draft: A Writer's Guide to Finishing a Novel in Ten Days (The Ten Day Novelist Book 2)
Routines require simple, repeatable tasks that can become automatic and fit together seamlessly (cf. Mata, Todd, and Lippke, 2010).
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Consequently there must be some little quality of fierceness until the habit pattern of a certain number of words is established. There is no possibility, in me at least, of saying, “I’ll do it if I feel like it.” One never feels like awaking day after day. In
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