Scott Adams on his morning routine: “I wait for the ideas… like a hunter in a duck blind”
Like many writers, Scott Adams has a pretty strict routine that he follows when getting down to work. He describes it in a Business Insider article, and no
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Skip to contentLike many writers, Scott Adams has a pretty strict routine that he follows when getting down to work. He describes it in a Business Insider article, and no
Raymond Chandler in a 1949 letter to Alex Barris on the discipline of writing: What do I do with myself from day to day? I write when I
Not long ago I went through a John Le Carré phase. Mainly thanks to the new Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie in which Gary Oldman plays George Smiley, I read the
From the Paris Review interview with author J. G. Ballard: INTERVIEWER What are your daily working habits like? BALLARD Every day, five days a week. Longhand now, it’s
You know the pushback against the cult of busyness is growing when there’s a Vooza video about it:
Business Insider’s Eric Barker has a nice profile of Dan Ariely’s recent work on productivity and time management. For those of you who aren’t familiar with his books,
One of the arguments I'm building in the rest project is that for creative people, work and rest are not opposites, but partners. We think of rest as
Of all the writers I know, Ray Bradbury is probably the most eloquent proponent of the idea that inspiration is unbiddable and uncontrollable, that his stories came from
In Surprised by Joy, C. S. Lewis describes his time living in Great Bookham with William Kirkpatrick, a former school headmaster who tutored students preparing for university entrance