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Writers on writing

How we work

What is "How we work"?
We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work. Here's a list of some stories and habits. Not sure it is actually useful for anything. Do any patterns emerge across stories, other than the obvious stories of super-focus, super-dedication?
These examples are mostly "names" because the list so far is mostly from published sources, but everyone's stories and habits are interesting.
  1. Ben Ainslie, sailor
  2. Apelles, artist
  3. Fred Astaire, entertainer
  4. Frank Auerbach, artist
  5. Autechre, musicians
  6. Francis Bacon, artist
  7. Francis Bacon, Elizabethan polymath
  8. J.G. Ballard, author
  9. Walter Benjamin, writer
  10. David Blunkett, politician
  11. Edward de Bono, psychologist
  12. Ray Bradbury, author

How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days

Daily Routines

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Eat Like an Artist: You'll Be More Creative—and Lose Weight!


Why Are Great Composers—Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mahler—Obsessed With Taking Long Walks?


Great Architects Love a Good Nap


Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Other Great Procrastinators


Does Masturbation Make You More or Less Creative?


Freud's Wife Put the Toothpaste on His Toothbrush


T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Joseph Heller:They All Had Day Jobs


Benjamin Franklin Liked Air Baths. Franz Kafka Did Naked Calisthenics.


Great Artists Don't Wait for Inspiration; They Work, Work, Work


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