How do writers write?
- 10 dic 2016
- 2 Min. de lectura
All writers have their own particular ways of getting words down - a favourite pen, a special place, even a certain time of day. Four famous reveal their secrets.
MICHAEL MORPURGO
British children's author
I had problems some years ago sitting at a desk because I got pains in my wrist and shoulder, so I decided to copy my writing hero Robert Louis Stevenson instead and found his way worked. Now, when I have a story in my head I go to bed with a small notebook, like the one children are given in primary school, and fill it up. I keep my manuscripts in the frigde just in case the house burns down.
SUZANNE COLLINS
American screenwriter and novelist
I grab some cereal and sit down to work as soon as possible. The more distractions I have to deal with before I actually begin writing, the harder focusing on the story becomes. Then I work until I'm tapped out, usually sometime in the early afternoon. If I actually write three to five hours, that's a productive day. Some days all I do is stare at the wall. That can be productive too, if you're working out character and plot problems. The rest of the time, I walk around with the story slipping in and out of my boughts.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Japanese author and translator
When I'm in the process of writing a novel, I get up at 4.00 a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for 10 km or swim for 1500m (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at 9.00 pm. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of hypnotism and it helps me reach a deeper and it helps me reach a deeper state of mind.
PHILIP PULLMAN
British author
I sit down to write by hand, in ballpoint, on A4 narrow lined paper, after breakfast, and work through till lunch with a break for coffee and reading mail. Then I have lunch and watch Neighbours (an Australiam soap opera). In the evening I finish the three pages which is my daily task, or if I finished them in the morning, I do whatever journalism or reviewing or lecture-planning I have in hand.
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