John Grisham's Daily Writing Routine ✍️

2023-05-02 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:55 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Explanation and tutorial

In a Short, Ali describes the novelist John Grisham's daily writing routine (early starts in an offline office, 1,000 to 2,000 words a day, five days a week, then the rest of the day off) and draws three lessons: establish a routine, set daily goals and eliminate distractions.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — John Grisham's daily writing routine and what to take from it

• ★★ John Grisham is an author who has sold over 300 million copies of his legal thrillers worldwide. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali says John Grisham believes in routine and discipline: he used to wake at 5am to write for a few hours before his work as a lawyer began at 9. — 00:00:00
• ★★ John Grisham (quoted): John Grisham says he now starts at about 7:30, in the same small office behind his house where he has written for 22 years, with no phones, faxes or internet: he works offline. — 00:00:00
• ★★★ John Grisham (quoted): John Grisham writes 2,000 words on a good day and 1,000 on a slow one; done five days a week for six months, he says, that is a lot of pages, and that is how his books are written. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Once he reaches his daily word count, John Grisham takes the rest of the day off for his business, family and leisure, Ali says, because he knows that working around the clock is not sustainable. — 00:00:29
• ★★ From John Grisham's routine, Ali tells writers and anyone trying to be more productive to establish a routine, consider setting daily goals and eliminate distractions, advice he says we all know but probably do not follow. — 00:00:29

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Central: John Grisham

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