Ian Fleming: A writer’s habits
How about this for a writing schedule:
“Rising early for a swim in the aquamarine waters in the cove below his idyllic Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, Fleming tapped away at his Remington portable typewriter with six fingers for three hours in the morning and an hour in the afternoon — 2,000 words a day, a completed novel in two months, all the while keeping up the sybaritic lifestyle that led Noel Coward, a frequent guest at Goldeneye and no puritan himself, to describe the Fleming household as “golden ear, nose and throat.”
An excerpt from an article in yesterday’s New York Times titled “Remember Fleming, Ian Fleming”.
I have never been any good writing first thing in the morning, always needing several hours of futzing around. Nowadays with a ‘real’ job during the day, I’ve turned into a late-night writer.
How about you?