The Right Writing Routine

Ernest Hemingway famously wrote standing up at his desk. In an interview with George Plimpton for the Paris Review, he said he started "every morning as soon after first light as possible," when "there is no one to disturb you." He added, "You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next, and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.... It's the wait until the next day that's hard to get through."