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Mason Currey
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Mason Currey's personal blog at masoncurrey.com covers writing and culture. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mason Currey's site for his book Daily Rituals, on the routines and working habits of 161 creative figures, and for his writing on artists' schedules.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Author of the DAILY RITUALS books and the Subtle Maneuvers newsletter, now writing a history of making art and making a living, coming in 2023
What Hacker News says?
There's a couple of things I do that I've found beneficial to deal with this problem. 1. I've found it very beneficial to "Lock down" goals and objectives for the entire year. Spend 2 days thinking of what you want, with a 4 day review period and match them with a list of habits. Then put them somewhere you'll see every day. For instance, I put them on the right hand side of my main Trello Board. Every day, I see th…
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on “Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma”Mason Curry also wrote a book about artists and their schedules http://masoncurrey.com/
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on “Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators”Finish writing my novel. Sure, I write after/before work (as did many famous writers as described in the really great book[1]), but it's HARD, and it's taken me 2 years to finish a first draft. I daydream about my schedule: up at 8, exercise, write/edit from 9-12, then again from 1-2,then do the rest of the mundane stuff that builds up in a day. 100k polished words in 6 months, easy peasy. [1] http://masoncurrey.com…
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on “Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?”If this intersection is of interest to you, so might Mason Currey's book Daily Rituals ("On the routines and working habits of 161 inspired minds, from Beethoven to Donald Barthelme, Kafka to Georgia O’Keeffe") which I've enjoyed very much (no affiliation), for similar reasons. Link: https://www.masoncurrey.com/daily-rituals
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on “The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs”