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Tobias Wolff<\/strong> Haruki Murakami<\/strong> Herman Koch<\/strong> Khaled Hosseini<\/strong> Tobias Wolff Inspirational Activity: Take notes about your childhood Tobias Wolff had no plans to write a memoir before starting This Boy\u2019s Life, but he kept so many notes about his childhood, moving around with his mother, that eventually the notes became an idea and that idea \u201cchose\u201d him, all he had to do was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nInspirational Activity: Take notes about your childhood<\/strong>
\nTobias Wolff had no plans to write a memoir before starting This Boy\u2019s Life, but he kept so many notes about his childhood, moving around with his mother, that eventually the notes became an idea and that idea \u201cchose\u201d him, all he had to do was write it.<\/p>\n
\nInspirational Activity: Get into a strict routine and exercise<\/strong>
\nWhen he\u2019s writing a novel, Haruki Murakami gets up every morning at 4 am, works for five or six hours, runs 10 kilometers or swims 1500 meters (or both), reads for the rest of the day, and then goes to bed promptly at 9 pm. He holds this routine for six months to a year, using this repetition as mesmerism to stay inspired. (\u201cI mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nInspirational Activity: Do some field work<\/strong>
\nAlternative: Write drunk<\/strong>
\nWhen writing a novel, Herman Koch tries to get as close to his characters as possible. Once, while researching the main character of his novel Summer House with Swimming Pool (who is a doctor), he made an appointment with his own doctor specifically to make note of his presence in the office.
\nWhen in a rut, Koch takes Hemingway\u2019s famous advice: \u201cWrite drunk, edit sober.\u201d The first time Koch did this, he reread what he had written and allegedly thought \u201cThis is so good \u2013 I\u2019m never able to write this well!\u201d He got his idea for The Dinner, his breakthrough novel, \u201cafter having had a few beers on Christmas eve.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nInspirational Activity: Watch the news<\/strong>
\nKhaled Hosseini saw a news story on TV in the spring of 1999 about the Taliban, which discussed the rules the Taliban had put on Afghan people. At one point, it mentioned that they had banned flying kites, which Hosseini had done many times as a boy in Kabul, so he sat down and wrote a 25-page short story, and left it for two years. Later, he found it in his garage in 2001 and turned it into The Kite Runner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"