{"id":10527,"date":"2013-09-04T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=10527"},"modified":"2013-09-04T15:53:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:53:36","slug":"on-the-subject-of-routines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/on-the-subject-of-routines\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Subject of Routines"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. But to hold to such repetition for so long\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsix months to a year\u00e2\u20ac\u201drequires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u201dHaruki Murakami, interviewed by John Wray in The Art of Fiction No. 182<\/a>, for The Paris Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2544],"tags":[1401,36,1400,1402],"class_list":["post-10527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-mesmerism","tag-money","tag-reason-to-apply-for-grants","tag-watch-the-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}