This article will reflect many of the readers who follow us who are also writers, I'm sure! Why? Because we are going to write some of the weird and curious customs of famous writers that we all know. Among them are Gabriel García Márquez (el Gabo, so loved and missed by all), Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Virginia Wolf, Lewis Carroll, Isabel Allende or Carmen Martín Gaite, just to name a few.
If you want to know what the strange manias of our best known writers were, then you can entertain yourself.
There are those who wrote and write standing up
Well, nothing, these authors were not going to write sitting down, accommodated in a soft armchair ... They preferred to do it standing up, which indicates that they were active people with great nervousness.
Some of those who wrote standing were Virginia Woolf, Dickens, Lewis Carroll or the very Hemingway.
There are those that hang upside down
That getting their blood to their heads doesn't seem to bother them enough, at least that's what they think Dan Brown, yes the writer who became famous for his two bestsellers: "The Da Vinci Code" y "Angels and Demons".
According to this writer, hanging upside down get to relax and concentrate better in his work (writing). The more you do it, the more you feel relieved and inspired to write. Another curious fact about this author is that every hour of writing he takes a short break to practice home gymnastics: sit-ups, push-ups, etc.
Long live nudity!
We don't know if it's from heat or from sheer exhibitionism, Victor Hugo he always wrote naked. With the whole thing 'al vent' the man was better inspired and had more brilliant ideas than when he was wearing clothes.
What do I say that it would not be so bad given the good literary works that he left us, right?
Coffee, a lot of coffee ... And the more loaded, the better!
Well, we have to confess that this "addiction" to coffee is not only a matter of writers, ... But the author Honore Balzac it was already an excessive thing ... 50 cups a day! Very followed by Voltaire, which counted 40 cups of coffee a day. Would they sleep? Surely the owls slept more than they ...
And to finish, we will say small curiosities of some writers in particular. There they go!
- Pablo Neruda he almost always wrote in green ink.
- Carmen Martin Gaite she wanted to die hugging her notebooks.
- Haruki Murakami gets up at 4 in the morning, works 6 hours. In the afternoon he runs 10 km or 1.500 m swim, he reads, listens to music and goes to bed at 9. He follows that routine without any variation, as we learned from his book "What I mean when I talk about running".
- Borges He scrutinized his dreams so hard to see if they would help him write new fragments.
- Isabel AllendeBefore starting to write a novel (which should always start on January 8), light a candle. When the candle goes out is when she stops writing.
- Hemingway he always wrote with a rabbit's foot in his pocket.
These crazy writers, with their various hobbies, the satisfaction they have given us and continue to give us!
Before I wrote lying on the ground. Sometimes he confused the marble tile with the sheet of paper and captured what he was writing on the tile. Later, when he finished and read on the page, letters and even complete sentences were missing.
Now I write like everyone else who writes. My many fountain pens, including Mont Blanc, Parker, Cross…, I try to use them as much as possible; But modernity has made me more and more stupid, and most of what I write I do on a computer, using a vulgar and ugly keyboard and making mistakes all the time, because in the rush and although I have never been a typist, sometimes I transform an M into an N, and other things. Curiously, I, who am one of the ancients and I use the accent as I was taught more than 60 years ago, I see that the accent disappears and becomes Ñ. I call things of modernity!
As for reading, since the beginning of the day (which for me is like Haruki Murakami), I already have a book in my hands on the toilet. I write about three hours. I go out, take a walk, don't remember eating, and write again, until my back starts to hurt. That usually happens in the middle of the afternoon. Then I draw something, have a whiskey, have little dinner and soon I am in bed.
My life as a humble writer (I call myself a "writer"), goes in those directions. Some of those scriptures have been published.
Hello M. Bono VERY WELL ... natural, I would say, to write ... I do the same as you: 1st was with a pencil then with a pen .... now with a computer, which gives me the comfort of correcting as many as I please ...
Well, I still haven't got my weird habit.
Mmm maybe I like to seduce strangers to write forbidden verses ...
Hello anelim… ..
You know? I love to seduce strangers with forbidden verses ... or too erotic .... when in real life I am somewhat reserved òco provocative…. A ground wire, I would say ...
I do it when I'm excited… and I often cry.