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Cal Newport's Daily Routine
Finish your deep work by 5:30 PM and keep the evening. Cal Newport plans every minute of his workday, after a morning run and 25 pull-ups.
Paul Graham's Daily Routine
Get a maker's schedule inside a manager's day. Paul Graham did business until dinner, then programmed from dinner until about 3:00 AM.
Kurt Vonnegut's Daily Routine
Working a day job and still want to write? Kurt Vonnegut got four hours of writing done by ten, then swam before lunch and kept his evenings free.
Flannery O'Connor's Daily Routine
Low on energy? Flannery O'Connor wrote just three focused hours a day and finished two novels and 32 stories, a routine that respects your limits.
Benjamin Franklin's Daily Routine
Become someone who plans every hour on purpose, with Benjamin Franklin's routine that opens with a morning question and closes with an honest review.
Maya Angelou's Daily Routine
Borrow Maya Angelou's routine of writing in a bare room where nothing else can happen, then coming home to reread the day's pages over a quiet dinner.
Victor Hugo's Daily Routine
Try the routine behind Les Misérables, with Victor Hugo's writing at dawn, a cold bath at eleven and an afternoon of hard exercise to clear his head.
Haruki Murakami's Daily Routine
Finish the long project you keep putting off with Haruki Murakami's routine of writing before breakfast, a hard run every day and bed by nine.
Charles Dickens's Daily Routine
Write two thousand words a day and still keep your evenings, with Charles Dickens's routine of five quiet hours at the desk and a long afternoon walk.
Vladimir Nabokov's Daily Routine
Settle into Vladimir Nabokov's unhurried routine of writing standing up, strolling by the lake and napping after lunch, with room for work all day.
Kingsley Amis's Daily Routine
Hate early starts? Kingsley Amis lingered over breakfast and the papers, but the writing began at the same hour each day. A routine for slow starters.
Thomas Mann's Daily Routine
Give your hardest work the freshest hours. Thomas Mann wrote behind a closed door from nine to noon and saved letters and reading for the afternoon.
Gustave Flaubert's Daily Routine
Keep your life orderly so your work can be bold. Gustave Flaubert's routine was as regular as a clock and gave ten long hours a day to the page.
William Styron's Daily Routine
Turn late nights into your most productive hours with William Styron's routine of sleeping until noon, then four focused hours of writing from four.
Honoré de Balzac's Daily Routine
Try Balzac's all-night writing routine when a deadline looms, sleeping at dusk and working through the silent hours while everyone else sleeps.
Franz Kafka's Daily Routine
Stuck in a day job with no time to create? Franz Kafka worked the office, slept through the evening and wrote his best stories after midnight.
Voltaire's Daily Routine
See what total absorption really looks like. Voltaire dictated from bed all morning and worked deep into the night, a routine to learn from, not copy.