Odd Writing Habits that Worked
The literary world is dotted with figures, each with its unique, and in a way, eccentric writing habits. Some were fastidious, some methodical, a few wrote with a drink by their side, some wrote standing up, some walked while they wrote, while others liked to write lying down.
Writing standing up was an oddly common method. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up as did Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita. Nabokov used index cards for his writing. He wrote the scenes non-sequentially so that he could re-arrange the cards as he wished. His longest novel Ada(1969) took up more than 2,000 cards…
