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Matt Haig, author of 'The Midnight Library' - Bestselling writing talks searching for humanity, trusting the process, and getting the first draft done.

Writer's Routine

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How to Unclog Your Mind When You're Stuck

I genuinely believe a lot of the great writing that happens inside a book actually doesn't happen when you're literally writing it. I get so many great ideas from those sort of like classic Hollywood era films of the 1950s and 40s and things like that. Writing in the morning is so much more productive than writing in the afternoon for every paragraph I would get done in a morning it would be like a sentence in the afternoon I'm probably about three times faster. For some reason before lunch my brain is just sharper and so I'd write in the morning  in terms of how much I get done That is such a variable depending on where I am within the novel as well because I go

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