Interview with Zen Cho: “How that day goes partly depends on what deadlines I have.”
Zen Cho is the author of the Sorcerer to the Crown novels, the novella The Order of the…
by Famous Writing Routines September 22, 2022
by Famous Writing Routines September 22, 2022
Interview with Paul Bradley Carr: “Hire a great editor and listen to them.”
Paul Bradley Carr has spent more than 20 years plumbing the darkest depths of the tech industry including…
by Famous Writing Routines September 22, 2022
Interview with Joan Silber: “Every writer has to face rejection in various forms.”
Joan Silber was raised in New Jersey and received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied…
by Famous Writing Routines September 22, 2022
Interview with Michael J. Seidlinger: “I’d like to think it’s more like a form of therapy.”
Michael J. Seidlinger is a Filipino American author of Anybody Home?, Scream, and other books.
by Famous Writing Routines September 19, 2022
Interview with Steve Almond: “What matters is the ability to arrest your attention in the midst of distraction.”
Steve Almond is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers…
by Famous Writing Routines September 16, 2022
Interview with Peter Ho Davies: “Brief interruptions seem to be part of my writing process.”
Peter Ho Davies’s most recent books are the novel A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, long-listed for…
by Famous Writing Routines September 12, 2022
Interview with Margot Livesey: “As I get further along, the word count usually goes down.”
Margot Livesey grew up in a boys’ private school in the Scottish Highlands where her father taught, and…
by Famous Writing Routines September 9, 2022
Interview with Laura Cesarco Eglin: “I focus more on allowing myself free time.”
Laura Cesarco Eglin is a poet and translator from Uruguay. She is the author of three collections of…
by Famous Writing Routines September 5, 2022
Interview with Harriet Kline: “The words always mount up eventually.”
Harriet’s debut novel This Shining Life was published last year by Penguin US and Transworld UK. She also…
by Famous Writing Routines September 2, 2022
Interview with Rebecca van Laer: “The more time I spend away from the project, the better.”
Rebecca van Laer is a writer based in the Hudson Valley. How to Adjust to the Dark (Long…
by Famous Writing Routines August 29, 2022
Interview with Greg Donahue: “I just need to step away to have any chance of unlocking it.”
Greg Donahue is an American writer and investigative journalist. His work has appeared in publications including New York…
by Famous Writing Routines August 26, 2022
Interview with Karen Havelin: “I try very hard to trust the process.”
Karen Havelin is a writer and translator from Bergen, Norway. She attended Skrivekunst-akademiet i Hordaland, and has a…
by Famous Writing Routines August 22, 2022
Interview with Ethel Rohan: “I find handwriting frees the subconscious and restarts flow.”
Ethel Rohan is the author of In the Event of Contact, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story…
by Famous Writing Routines August 19, 2022
Interview with Hermione Hoby: “Writing can’t be quantified, and certainly not by word count.”
Hermione grew up in Bromley, in south London, and graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2007 with…
by Famous Writing Routines August 15, 2022
Interview with Todd Henry: “Moving my fingers on the keys is the best way to unlock ideas.”
Positioning himself as an “arms dealer for the creative revolution”, Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to…
by Famous Writing Routines August 12, 2022
Interview with Alyson Hagy: “I focus more on steady progress than word count.”
Alyson Hagy grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She is a graduate…
by Famous Writing Routines August 8, 2022
Interview with Cat Baab-Muguira: “I write in great bursts of inspiration and interest.”
Cat Baab-Muguira grew up in South Carolina and Richmond, Virginia, a middle child in a big Catholic family.…
by Famous Writing Routines August 5, 2022
Joseph Heller’s Writing Routine: “I feel that these ideas are floating around in the air and they pick me to settle upon.”
Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays, best-known for his 1961 satirical…
by Famous Writing Routines August 3, 2022
Interview with Attica Locke: “My goal is to just show up to work and go as long as I can.”
Attica Locke’s latest novel Heaven, My Home (September 2019) is the sequel to Edgar Award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird.
by Famous Writing Routines August 1, 2022
Interview with David Shields: “I count it a good day so long as I’m working on the book.”
David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Reality Hunger, The Thing About…
by Famous Writing Routines July 29, 2022
Jeffrey Archer’s Writing Routine: “You can never tell when and where inspiration will strike.”
Jeffrey Archer is an English novelist, best-known for his 1979 book, Kane and Abel, which remains as one of…
by Famous Writing Routines July 27, 2022
Interview with Ted Conover: “Writing is still hard for me, but it gets easier if I stick to a routine.”
Born January 17 in 1958, Ted Conover is an American author and journalist, best-known for his immersion into…
by Famous Writing Routines July 25, 2022
Interview with Sareeta Domingo: “Persevere, and choose projects in which you have the utmost belief.”
Sareeta Domingo is the author of The Three of Us, (originally published as The Nearness of You), and…
by Famous Writing Routines July 22, 2022
Gillian Flynn’s Writing Routine: “There’s no muse that’s going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write.”
Gillian Flynn is an American writer, best-known for her three novels, Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl, all of which…
by Famous Writing Routines July 20, 2022
Interview with Michael Arditti: “My own process is one of constant refining and polishing.”
Michael Arditti is the author of twelve novels, including Easter, The Enemy of the Good, Jubilate and The…
by Famous Writing Routines July 18, 2022
Interview With Trevor Wood: “Writers like to prevaricate at the best of times.”
Trevor Wood is a successful playwright who has also worked as a journalist and spin-doctor for the City…
by Famous Writing Routines July 15, 2022
Interview with Dan Charnas: “Different types of writing require different levels of immersion.”
Dan Charnas is an award-winning music and business journalist; producer of records and television; and professor.
by Famous Writing Routines July 13, 2022
Interview with Seyward Darby: “As a writer I tend to work like a quilter.”
Seyward Darby is the editor in chief of The Atavist Magazine. She previously worked at Foreign Policy and…
by Famous Writing Routines July 13, 2022
Interview with Jo Thomas: “Each book starts in the same way as I cook dinner.”
Jo Thomas worked for many years as a reporter and producer, first for BBC Radio 5, before moving…
by Famous Writing Routines July 13, 2022
Interview with Jess Row: “I have to protect my writing time carefully.”
Jess Row is the author of two collections of short stories, The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody…
by Famous Writing Routines July 13, 2022
Karen Jennings’ Writing Routine: “I knew I wanted to be a writer, and for a long time that was enough.”
Karen Jennings is a South African author, best-known for her novels Finding Soutbek (2013), and An Island, which…
by Famous Writing Routines July 13, 2022
Interview with Lucy Tan: “I have a very limited source of pure creative energy.”
Lucy Tan is the author of the novel What We Were Promised, which was longlisted for the Center…
by Famous Writing Routines July 12, 2022
Interview with Albert Samaha: “Seven hours of writing is nothing when you’re flowing.”
Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist, Inequality Editor at BuzzFeed News, and author of two books.
by Famous Writing Routines July 12, 2022
Interview with Anjali Enjeti: “Some days I have a lot of ideas, other days I have none.”
Anjali Enjeti is the recipient of the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year Award. A former attorney, organizer,…
by Famous Writing Routines July 12, 2022
Interview with Jeffery Deaver: “I never have a block in the writing process.”
A former journalist, folksinger and attorney, Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared…
by Famous Writing Routines July 11, 2022
Interview with Charlotte Mandell: “Our language is shaped by the language of others.”
Charlotte Mandell is a French literary translator who was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1968. She went to…
by Famous Writing Routines July 8, 2022
Laila Lalami’s Writing Routine: “Uncertainty is basically everyday in a life of a writer.”
Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor, best-known for her 2014 novel, The Moor’s Account, which was…
by Famous Writing Routines July 6, 2022
Interview with Anita Felicelli: “You’re juggling with one hand while miming climbing out of a well with the other.”
Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica: A Novel and the award-winning short story collection Love Songs for…
by Famous Writing Routines July 4, 2022
The Daily Word Counts Of 17 Famous Authors
How many words should a writer produce on an average day? Well, to get a rough idea, let’s…
by Famous Writing Routines July 3, 2022
Interview with Peter Mountford: “Your first and most important job is simply to command their attention.”
Peter Mountford was born and raised in Washington, D.C., apart from three years in Sri Lanka in the…
by Famous Writing Routines July 1, 2022
Louise Penny’s Writing Routine: “I had to be hurt into novel writing.”
Louise Penny is a Canadian author, best-known for her mystery novels centred around Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. She…
by Famous Writing Routines June 29, 2022
Interview with Christine Sneed: “By the time we entered lockdown, I was utterly exhausted.”
Christine Sneed is the author of the novels Paris, He Said and Little Known Facts, and the story…
by Famous Writing Routines June 27, 2022
Interview with Jeffrey Archer: “I feel very lucky not to have suffered writer’s block.”
Now published in 97 countries and more than 33 languages, Jeffrey Archer is firmly established as one of…
by Famous Writing Routines June 24, 2022
Interview with Mark Ellis: “You must persist if you believe in your work.”
Mark Ellis is a thriller writer from Swansea and a former barrister and entrepreneur. He is the creator of…
by Famous Writing Routines June 22, 2022
Interview with Rachel Abbott: “Self-publishing is time-consuming and requires real dedication.”
Rachel Abbott is the bestselling author of the DCI Tom Douglas thrillers, which have sold over 4 million…
by Famous Writing Routines June 22, 2022