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Agatha Christie claimed that washing dishes stimulated the flow of ideas.
Ernest Hemingway sharpened a dozen pencils and then assumed an odd position: He wrote standing up.
Norman Mailer used alcohol: "I usually need a can of beer to prime me."
Mark Twain wrote lying down.
For me I do a little mindfulness for fifteen minutes, have a big cup of tea, read 'Chambers Dictionary of Etymology.'
I'm a night owl, so I find ideas come to me later on in the day or mostly in my dreams. The sort of dreams, that wake you up and you can't get back to sleep until you have written it down. I carry a notebook with me everywhere full of quotes from writers, for inspiration. But if I'm socialising with friends and family it stays at home
How do my fellow writers warm up for writing?
Ernest Hemingway sharpened a dozen pencils and then assumed an odd position: He wrote standing up.
Norman Mailer used alcohol: "I usually need a can of beer to prime me."
Mark Twain wrote lying down.
For me I do a little mindfulness for fifteen minutes, have a big cup of tea, read 'Chambers Dictionary of Etymology.'
I'm a night owl, so I find ideas come to me later on in the day or mostly in my dreams. The sort of dreams, that wake you up and you can't get back to sleep until you have written it down. I carry a notebook with me everywhere full of quotes from writers, for inspiration. But if I'm socialising with friends and family it stays at home

How do my fellow writers warm up for writing?