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The Writing Routine Of Annie Dillard

The Writing Routine Of Annie Dillard

Writing routines are important.

How do you do what you do?

In past years, I wrote off and on all-day with the focus of a schizophrenic guppy.

Thankfully age and full-time employment have tempered me.

Now most of my writing routine involves waiting until everyone in the house has gone to sleep.

I can also usually steal away a few hours a week over my lunch hour.

In addition to the normal ebb and flow, – of course – I believe that part of the writing routine should involve a cafe.

Like Dillard here, just hope your spouse is a writer too.

Good-grief: Writers at least have sympathy for other writers.

“I slept until noon, as did my husband, who was also writing. I wrote once in the afternoon, and once again after our early dinner and a walk. During those months, I subsisted on that dinner, coffee, Coke, chocolate milk, and Vantage cigarettes. I worked till midnight, one, or two. When I came home in the middle of the night I was tired; I longed for a tolerant giant, a person as big as a house, to hold me and rock me. In fact, an exhausted daydream—almost a hallucination—of being rocked and soothed sometimes forced itself upon me, and interrupted me even when I was talking or reading.”

–Annie Dillard, The Writing Life (Amazon)

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