Real Hemingway’s Writing Routine Tested by Working Novelists

What did we like? What did we hate?

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Discovering the Hemingway Way: A Writer’s Experiment

I’d try anything to get me into a consistent writing routine, and only by testing out the successful writers’ ways of writing, would I know what works and and what doesn’t.

Today, we are shadowing Ernest Hemingway.

I, Priscilla, a writer and literary magazine editor, decided to try Hemingway’s writing routine for seven days, along with my mystery writer friend Imo.

What’s helpful is that Hemingway made it very clear how he did it in his interview with the Paris Review dated 1958. It’s paywalled, so read on for all the tips you need to know.

Breaking Down Hemingway’s Writing Routine

Just a word of warning: there is a website which I don’t want to name, seems to have made up Hemingway’s routine. As a keen researcher, I suggest it’s always best to go back to the original primary source. So many so-called Hemingway’s routine videos and texts are untrue.

Here are the key points we extracted for a seven-day trial:

1. Stand and write: Hemingway had a study where he lived but he…