Mindful Writing: How to Stay Focused and Avoid Distractions
Are you having trouble focusing on your writing and finding your mind constantly wandering? One way to combat…
by Famous Writing Routines May 2, 2022
by Famous Writing Routines May 2, 2022
Unlock Your Creativity: How Nature Can Inspire Your Writing Routine
As writers, we often get lost in our own heads, spending hours in front of a computer screen…
by Famous Writing Routines May 2, 2022
John Boyne’s Writing Routine: “I’m not quite sure what to do with days off.”
John Boyne is an Irish author, best-known for his 2006 novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which was…
by Famous Writing Routines April 27, 2022
Ocean Vuong’s Writing Routine: “You can’t just sit down and wing it.”
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet, essayist and author, best-known for his 2019 debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly…
by Famous Writing Routines April 22, 2022
Salman Rushdie’s Writing Routine: “I don’t have any strange, occult practices.”
Salman Rushdie is a British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent, best-known for his novels such as Midnight’s Children and The…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Antony Beevor’s Writing Routine: “There is no excuse for not writing when it’s non-fiction.”
Sir Antony Beevor is a British military historian, who has published several popular historical works on the Second…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Maggie Shipstead’s Writing Routine: “I have to write about what fascinates and moves me.”
Maggie Shipstead is an American novelist and author of the books, Seating Arrangements, Astonish Me, and Great Circle which was shortlisted for…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Sidney Sheldon’s Writing Routine: “I could easily write two books a year.”
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer, director, and producer, best-known for his best-selling romantic suspense novels, Master of the…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Graham Greene’s Writing Routine: “The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people.”
Graham Greene was an English author and journalist, best-known for his books The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Marlon James’ Writing Routine: “I can’t wait on inspiration to write a novel.”
Marlon James is a Jamaican author, best-known for his novels John Crow’s Devil, The Book of Night Women, A Brief History…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Karin Slaughter’s Writing Routine: “I think ‘obsessive’ is probably the diagnosis.”
Karin Slaughter is an American crime writer, who has written 21 novels to date, which have sold more…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Kurt Vonnegut’s Writing Routine: “It just turned out that I could write better than a lot of other people.”
Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer, best-known for his breakthrough novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections,…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Writing Routine: “I built my entire life around writing.”
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author, best-known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which has…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Joyce Carol Oates’ Writing Routine: “Be in some place where you’re not interrupted.”
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer, known for her prolific output. Over the decades, she has published…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
Richard Powers’ Writing Routine: “Write or don’t write, but be there.”
Richard Powers is an American author, best-known for his novel, The Echo Maker, which won the 2006 National Book…
by Famous Writing Routines April 21, 2022
David Baldacci’s Writing Routine: “Nobody ever masters the art of writing.”
David Baldacci is an American author, screenwriter and former attorney, best-known for his suspense and legal thriller novels…
by Famous Writing Routines April 18, 2022
Ian Fleming’s Writing Routine: “If I just wait for genius to arrive from the skies, it just doesn’t arrive.”
Ian Fleming was a British author, journalist and naval intelligence officer, best-known for writing the James Bond novels,…
by Famous Writing Routines April 18, 2022
Ben Fountain’s Writing Routine: “I treated it like a job. I did not procrastinate.”
Ben Fountain is an American author, best-known for his short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories, and…
by Famous Writing Routines April 14, 2022
Neil Gaiman’s Writing Routine: “You have permission to not write, but you don’t have permission to do anything else.”
Neil Gaiman is an English author, best-known for the comic book series, The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.
by Famous Writing Routines April 11, 2022
Toni Morrison’s Writing Routine: “What do I need in order to release my imagination?”
Toni Morrison was an American author and editor, best-known for her novels The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon; and the…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Mateo Askaripour’s Writing Routine: “I called myself a writer when I began pursuing writing seriously.”
Mateo Askaripour is a Brooklyn-based author, best-known for his bestseller, Black Buck, his satirical debut novel about a…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
John McPhee’s Writing Routine: “Time is the thing that has always favored me.”
John McPhee is an American writer, who is widely considered as one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction,…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Writing Routine: “You’re made very aware of why you write and how you write”
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer, best-known for his 1989 novel The…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Emily St. John Mandel’s Writing Routine: “I find the book in the revision process.”
Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian author and essayist, best-known for her novels, Station Eleven, which was adapted…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Haruki Murakami’s Writing Routine: “I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.”
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese author, best-known for his novels, essays and short stories that have become best-selling…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Khaled Hosseini’s Writing Routine: “You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine.”
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician, best-known for his 2003 debut novel…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Lee Child’s Writing Routine: “I have no idea what the plot is going to be.”
Lee Child is a British author, best-known for his thriller novels featuring the Jack Reacher character. His first…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Dean Koontz’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know what I’d do if I wasn’t writing.”
Dean Koontz is an American author, who has written many best-selling novels in the suspense, horror, fantasy, science-fiction…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Elmore Leonard’s Writing Routine: “I’ve stayed with it for over 50 years and it’s paid off.”
Elmore Leonard was an American author, short story writer, and screenwriter, best-known for his novels in the Western,…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Margaret Atwood’s Writing Routine: “All writers feel struck by the limitations of language.”
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, and essayist, as well as the recipient of numerous…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Stephen King’s Writing Routine: “I have a routine because I think that writing is self-hypnosis.”
Stephen King is an American author regarded as the “King of Horror,” best known for his supernatural fiction,…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Paul Auster’s Writing Routine: “It doesn’t come easy. But the difficulty is part of the pleasure.”
Paul Auster is an American writer and film director, best-known for the The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace,…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Truman Capote’s Writing Routine: “Intelligence alone can’t make a good writer.”
Truman Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor, best-known for his literary classics, the novella Breakfast…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Ernest Hemingway’s Writing Routine: “All you have to do is write one true sentence.”
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, best-known for his many works such as For…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Michael Lewis’ Writing Routine: “I couldn’t imagine wanting to do anything else for a living”
Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist, best-known for his books Moneyball: The Art of Winning…
by Famous Writing Routines April 7, 2022
Philip Roth’s Writing Routine: “Writing isn’t hard work, it’s a nightmare.”
Philip Roth was an American novelist and short story writer, best-known for his book, Goodbye, Columbus, and the Pulitzer…
by Famous Writing Routines April 5, 2022
Robert Caro’s Writing Routine: “I don’t know how good a writer I am. But I’m a very good interviewer.”
Robert Caro is an American journalist and author best-known for The Power Broker, a biography of New York…
by Famous Writing Routines April 1, 2022
Maya Angelou’s Writing Routine: “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, widely regarded for her seven autobiographies, three…
by Famous Writing Routines March 30, 2022
Dan Brown’s Writing Routine: “Writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.”
Dan Brown is an American author best known for his best-selling thriller novels, featuring the Robert Langdon character; Angels…
by Famous Writing Routines March 27, 2022
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Writing Routine: “I got to that point by writing a lot, reading a lot, and enduring a lot.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American novelist, best-known for his 2016 debut novel, The Sympathizer, which won the Pulitzer…
by Famous Writing Routines March 27, 2022
Michael Connelly’s Writing Routine: “Writing is all about finding momentum and keeping it.”
Michael Connelly is an American author best-known for his detective and crime fiction novels featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus…
by Famous Writing Routines March 25, 2022
Barack Obama’s Writing Routine: “Because nothing is more terrifying than the blank page.”
Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and is the author…
by Famous Writing Routines March 25, 2022
John Grisham’s Writing Routine: “Nothing will happen until you are producing at least one page per day.”
John Grisham is an American author and lawyer best known for his best-selling legal thrillers: A Time to Kill, The…
by Famous Writing Routines March 25, 2022
Jessica Bruder’s Writing Routine: “My best story ideas are the kind that have haunted me with questions each night.”
Jessica Bruder is an American journalist and author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, which was adapted…
by Famous Writing Routines March 25, 2022
Ann Patchett’s Writing Routine: “Starting a novel isn’t so different from starting a marriage.”
Ann Patchett is the author of seven novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician’s Assistant, Bel…
by Famous Writing Routines March 24, 2022