A creative process for the fiction writers mind.

Introduction

If you’re a writer, you understand that your creative process is as unique to you as your fingerprint. But it’s always interesting to see how other writers work and what habits they have. Here are some of the strange things I’ve observed from my favorite fiction writers:

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges was a surrealist writer who’s known for his strange habits. He wrote every day, even when he was sick. He also kept to a strict schedule: he worked in the same place at the same time every day and never left his study until he had finished what he was writing. This kind of discipline helped him to produce one short story every week, which is why we have so much of Borges’ work today.

Borges also loved books. He had a huge library, which he constantly added to and rearranged. He would often walk around with an old, tattered book in his pocket, just so that he could pull it out and show it to people.

Borges was a very strange man, but he was also a great writer. He loved books and reading so much that he would often buy old, tattered copies of popular novels just so that he could read them again. He was also known for his strange habits—he wrote every day, even when he was sick.

George Orwell

Orwell had a habit of writing in bed. He wrote his books longhand on small notepads, and he would do so for four hours each morning. Even when he was sick, Orwell made sure to write every day.

He believed that if he didn’t write, his mind would be empty and useless.

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is best known for his novel War and Peace. He was a vegetarian, pacifist, teetotaler and vegan. He believed that there should be no distinction between vegetarians and non-vegetarians since all living beings should be treated equally..

Tolstoy’s vegetarianism was not just a diet but an ethical decision based on his belief in nonviolence. He believed that the suffering of animals should be considered as seriously as human suffering, and he saw vegetarianism as a way to show respect for all life forms.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• He loved soccer. Marquez was an avid fan of soccer, and it’s no coincidence that the 1962 World Cup is a major plot point in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
• He was a big Beatles fan. The Fab Four played an important role in his life–when he first heard their music as a teenager (he was born in 1928), it changed his outlook on literature forever.
• He liked to paint and draw portraits of people he knew (including Gabriel Garcia Marquez himself). If you visit Colombia today, you’ll see several famous paintings by him hanging at museums around town!

Franz Kafka

If you’re a writer, you probably have some strange habits. Maybe you eat raw eggs every morning or take a bubble bath before writing your first chapter. Maybe you write in the nude, or maybe your desk is covered with dead flowers and leaves from outside.

These are all things that writers do because they want their work to be authentic–they want their characters’ actions to feel real on the page. But some famous authors took this idea further than others: Franz Kafka was obsessed with hygiene and cleanliness (to the point where he refused to touch people), while Emily Brontà always wore white gloves when she wrote so as not to stain her hands with ink (and also because she had terrible eczema). Both these authors were vegetarians due to moral reasons; for example, Kafka refused meat because he thought that animals should be left alone rather than eaten by humans–but even though his vegetarianism may seem strange today, it was actually quite common during his lifetime!

You might be surprised by the habits of some of your favorite writers.

You might be surprised by the habits of some of your favorite writers.

• Ernest Hemingway had an unusual writing routine: he wrote his stories in longhand standing up.
• J.K Rowling would write on yellow legal pads with a pen that she kept in her purse at all times, even when she was out and about doing errands or shopping for groceries!
• Stephen King writes every day, no matter how busy he is or how much else needs to get done around the house–even if it’s just one sentence at a time!

George Eliot would write in bed, sitting up with her back against the wall, which is why she often suffered from backaches. Charles Dickens had very bad eyesight and always wore spectacles while writing. He also had a habit of tapping his feet on the floor while he thought of ideas for his novels!

Conclusion

And so, we hope you’ve enjoyed learning about some of the strange habits of fiction writers. We know that many people find these habits interesting, but others might be annoyed by them. “Who cares what they do in their spare time?” they might ask. Well, as writers ourselves (and probably because we’re weird), we think it’s important to know what makes other writers tick–especially if it helps us understand how our own minds work! Even if you don’t write stories yourself (which is fine), knowing what goes on behind closed doors could help when it comes time for someone else’s story or novel