Antonia Fraser writes in the The Guardian about her writing routine: I work with... total calm from about 9.30 until lunchtime. Ideally I then go out to a
One of the most popular parts of REST is the chapter on four-hour days, and how lots of writers, artists and others crafted their schedules around those few
Well, maybe it's not more important than having something to say, a command of their language, and the ability to edit and improve, but still, the ability to
Scottish author James Kelman tells the Guardian how he got his start, and how he writes: I’m at the desk most mornings between 5.30 and 7. Every day
In my garage office I have a standing desk (actually a shelf in my Ikea bookcase). Most of the time it's awesome, but sometimes I do like to
I have a new ebook out: Rest in the World: My Morning Routine. When you write a book, there are stories that you can't fit into the book, but
In REST I had a chapter about why people are more creative in the morning, and here I've continued writing about morning routines and their importance in creative
Monty Python's John Cleese has given a number of talks over the years about creativity. Today runner and academic Peter Francis tweeted out a link to a talk Cleese gave that
Later this year Oxford University Press is publishing The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, edited by Kieran Fox and Kalina Christoff. I have a chapter on the history of
Poet Jacob Polley in The Guardian about his routine and the differences between writing prose and poetry:
