Tell Us Your Writing Routine

Tell us your writing schedule! We’re starting a new social media feature looking at how—and when—authors do their work. Some examples from Ursula K Le Guin, Ian Fleming, and Joan Didion may prove inspirational.

The format is simple: Each entry begins with a timestamp (e.g. 5 PM) and includes a line or two about how it was spent.

Here’s an example of how we wrote this template:

8 AM — Make coffee and think about writing schedule template.
8:30 AM — Open doc to begin writing schedule template and then click on particularly shocking Daily Mail headline.
8:45 AM — Realize I’ve clicked on 17 more shocking Daily Mail headlines. Return to Google Doc.
9 AM — Finish schedule template.
9:15 AM — Return to Daily Mail.

Tell us your routine below and we might feature it!