“Jack London claimed to write twenty hours a day. Before he undertook to write, he obtained the University of California course list and all the syllabi; he spent a year reading the textbooks in philosophy and literature. In subsequent years, once he had a book of his own under way, he set his alarm to wake him after four hours’ sleep. Often he slept through the alarm, so, by his own account, he rigged it to drop a weight on his head. I cannot say I believe this, though a novel like The Sea-Wolf is strong evidence that some sort of weight fell on his head with some sort of frequency — but you wouldn’t think a man would claim credit for it. London maintained that every writer needed a technique, experience, and a philosophical position.”
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The dark side of productivity. Pair with the daily routines and daily rituals of famous writers. (via explore-blog)
I was literally just saying to a friend that I need a more ingenious way of getting myself out of bed early every morning to write, b/c nothing I have tried so far has worked.
On that list is included multiple alarms. Loud annoying alarms. And hiding my alarm in the tarantula’s cage so I had to get out of bed and risk life and limb to turn it off.
