Ernest Hemingway tells us how:
When I am working on a book or story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write…
You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and you know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love.
Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.
Of course he had to add something “sexual” in there, but that’s just him I suppose.
I believe in what Ernest shares here 100% and I am an early riser. Are you?
Stephen Bateman says
Oooh Ernest. And I’m working hard on getting up earlier. I’ve cracked 8am two days in a row. Goal is to be up by 7 every day soon.
Jimmy King says
I get all my best work done, and have my most productive days when I get up early. I prefer to wake up at 5am, go for a run, shower, eat breakfast, and start my work at 6.
Phillip Gibb says
I used to be an early riser, now I just go to sleep later and struggle more in getting up.
maybe there is truth in the saying : “early to bed, early to rise, makes you healthy, wealthy and wise”