Naomi Novik
The Temeraire author sometimes needs to set something on fire…
THE SFX AUTHOR QUESTIONNAIRE
What is your daily writing routine like?
It changes radically depending on where I am in the book.
Sometimes I go through periods where I’m systematically writing at the same time each day, making steady progress, but there’s also a lot of fallow time where I’m not writing but a lot of stuff is happening in the back of my head. Then when I can dedicate a solid week or two to writing and get a lot of flow, that’s when I get huge word counts. My only routine in those weeks is “ignore everything else and write” and my email goes unanswered and all my food is take-out.