3/31/2024 0 Comments Ben franklin daily schedule pdf![]() Jack Kerouac describes his rituals and superstitions in 1968: A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper. If I get sick of it, I have places I can go. In consequence, the members of my household never pay the slightest attention to my being a writing man - they make all the noise and fuss they want to. My wife, thank God, has never been protective of me, as, I am told, the wives of some writers are. A girl pushing a carpet sweeper under my typewriter table has never annoyed me particularly, nor has it taken my mind off my work, unless the girl was unusually pretty or unusually clumsy. But it’s a bright, cheerful room, and I often use it as a room to write in, despite the carnival that is going on all around me. My house has a living room that is at the core of everything that goes on: it is a passageway to the cellar, to the kitchen, to the closet where the phone lives. On the other hand, I’m able to work fairly well among ordinary distractions. I haven’t that kind of attentiveness, and I wouldn’t like it at all. I never listen to music when I’m working. White, in the same fantastic interview that gave us his timeless insight on the role and responsibility of the writer, notes his relationship with sound and ends on a note echoing Tchaikovsky on work ethic: In Sacramento nobody cares if I appear or not. Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it. That’s one reason I go home to Sacramento to finish things. Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it. If I don’t have the hour, and start the next day with just some bad pages and nowhere to go, I’m in low spirits. When I’m really working I don’t like to go out or have anybody to dinner, because then I lose the hour. ![]() Then I start the next day by redoing all of what I did the day before, following these evening notes. So I spend this hour taking things out and putting other things in. ![]() I can’t do it late in the afternoon because I’m too close to it. I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I’ve done that day. Joan Didion creates for herself a kind of incubation period for ideas, articulated in a 1968 interview: Later on, when I wanted to write Fahrenheit 451, I went up to UCLA and found a basement typing room where, if you inserted ten cents into the typewriter, you could buy thirty minutes of typing time. I worked on my typewriter in the living room, with the radio and my mother and dad and brother all talking at the same time. I wrote in bedrooms and living rooms when I was growing up with my parents and my brother in a small house in Los Angeles. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. So I never have to worry about schedules. My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. ![]() Ray Bradbury, a lifelong proponent of working with joy and an avid champion of public libraries, playfully defies the question of routines in a 2010 interview: So I pored through various old diaries and interviews - many from the fantastic Paris Review archives - and culled a handful of writing routines from some of my favorite authors. Kurt Vonnegut’s recently published daily routine made we wonder how other beloved writers organized their days. UPDATE: These daily routines have now been adapted into a labor-of-love visualization of writers’ sleep habits vs. ![]()
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