Vladimir Nabokov's Framework

Nabokov described his Montreux winters to the New York Times in 1968. He woke between six and seven, his alarm clock an Alpine chough on the balcony, and wrote until 10:30 standing at a lectern facing a bright corner of the room, breaking around 8:30 for breakfast with his wife Véra and the mail. Around eleven he soaked for twenty minutes in a hot bath, then strolled with Véra along the lake, ate a frugal lunch and took a two-hour nap, after which he worked until dinner at seven. An hour or two of Scrabble in a Cyrillic set followed, then reading in bed, and between eleven and midnight the usual fight with insomnia. From 1950 he drafted in pencil on ruled index cards, which let him write any part of a book in any order. A note on the chart: it drops the two-hour nap and the early lectern session and starts the writing at ten, so the week here shows about seven hours of creative work spread across the day rather than the dawn start he actually kept. Adjust the morning if you adopt it.