dailyroutines.typepad.com - 12/10/2008
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Begley is particularly astute on the bizarre organization of Kafka's writing day. At the Assicurazioni Generali, Kafka despaired of his twelve-hour shifts that left no time for writing; two years later, promoted to the position of chief clerk at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, he was ...
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Science Fiction Novelists Reveal Their Daily Writing Routines [Writing]
io9 —
... happens rarely, but it sometimes happens—and something has dawned on me, I turn the light on and I write in the bedroom. I have these little yellow things all over the place. I read till all hours if I want to. If I get up at five and I can't sleep and I want to work, I go out and I go to work. So I work, I'm on a call. I'm like a doctor and it's an emergency room. And I'm the emergency." David Remnick, Reporting: Writings From The New Yorker Daily Routines: Writers [Daily Routines via Metafilter]
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... • Some fantastic insight on the daily routines of scifi writers shows that Franz Kafka only slept an hour a day, which explains a lot about the sanity of his writing. ...
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