Just a few days ago, Haruki Murakami’s Japanese publisher announced that his 16th novel will be published this summer. A quick section of Kaho’s storytranslated into English by Philippe Gabriel, appeared in new yorker in 2024. The complete version reaches 352 pages, a rather thick work for a 77-year-old novelist who has been in this career for almost half a century. Murakami’s unflagging productivity must be owed to his famously rigorous life structured around the poles of writing and running, two activities that require long-term patience. in video aboveYouTuber MariWriting is trying it herself. She wakes up at 4 a.m. every morning, works on a project for five to six hours, then runs 10 kilometers — or in her case, at least gets outside and walks for a while.
Even if Murakami considers it essential to his writing life, he also employs unusual and seemingly effective techniques that others can use. For example, consider how you overcame obstacles to your writing progress by writing the beginning of your first novel in English and then translating it back into your native Japanese.
He also sticks to an editing process that consists of four spaced phases, each focusing on a different element of the manuscript. With Stephen King, things are a little different. Although he is less than two years older than Murakami, he has published many projects, including 67 novels, 12 story collections, and 5 nonfiction books. Still, as highlighted, MariWriting’s video directly aboveKing, no less than Murakami, writes in a completely everyday manner that constitutes “self-hypnosis.”
Virginia Woolf probably found herself in a similar state from time to time, but given her nearly 30 years of working as a book reviewer under weekly deadlines, there were many times when she needed to put pen to paper, no matter her state of mind. Then she put pen to paper and literally did this. As MariWriting explainsWoolf first wrote by hand (sometimes in purple ink, her favorite color), then retyped the morning’s work after lunch. In addition to novels and literary journalism, she also developed a daily habit of writing more freely in her diary after tea, which allowed her to formulate thoughts about her “real” projects. One might compare the importance of Woolf’s diary to that of David Sedaris, the basis of everything he published. But all of us writers, male or female, Eastern or Western, novelist or not, can understand from Woolf’s example the need for a dedicated space, a room of one’s own.
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