Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing routine
The ideal routine by Austin Kleon
“Albert Camus once told a reporter, ‘One has to pass the time somehow.’ ”
“Nathaniel Hawthorne, after spending the day with his five-year-old son, wrote in his journal, ‘We got rid of the day as well as we could.’ ”
“Maybe success is just a matter of how the reality of the days match up to the ones in your imagination.”
What your days look like by Austin Kleon
“From 10 to 11 yesterday’s diary and to read. From 11 to 12 — gymnastics. From 12 to 1 — English. Beklemishev and Beyer from 1 to 2. From 2 to 4 — on horseback. From 4 to 6 — dinner. From 6 to 8 — to read. From 8 to 10 — to write. — To translate something from a foreign language into Russian to develop memory and style. — To write today with all the impressions and thoughts it gives rise to.”
Young Leo Tolstoy´s diary entry on March 24, 1851, outlining his agenda for the next day, March 25
Awoke late out of sloth. Wrote my diary and did gymnastics, hurrying. Did not study English out of sloth. With Begichev and with Islavin was vain. At Beklemishev’s was cowardly and lack of fierté. On Tver Boulevard wanted to show off. I did not walk on foot to the Kalymazhnyi Dvor (sissiness). Rode with a desire to show off. For the same reason rode to Ozerov’s. — Did not return to Kalymazhnyi, thoughtlessness. At the Gorchakovs’ dissembled and did not call things by their names, fooling myself. Went to L’vov’s out of insufficient energy and the habit of doing nothing. Sat around at home out of absentmindedness and read Werther inattentively, hurrying.
Diary entry on March, 25
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