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One thing you hear from writers is that the hardest thing is to wake up every morning and do your job of writing, to write every day.

Eric Larson, the guy who wrote The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck.

And his new book, Dead Wake, has a trick.

The thing that I've hit on in the day before, I always stop in the middle of something, in the middle

of a paragraph, often in the middle of a sentence.

And the reason I do that is because then the next morning, when I sit down

with my cup of coffee and my oil cookie, which is like my other stick. When I sit down the next morning I will be

instantly productive. Does it ever eat at you this unfinished sentence in your

head and you just wish you could go back and do it before the next day?

Well, yes, I mean, there are, it is, it's a good question because it is the case that like later

the day, I mean, some, you know, I mean, I feel like, oh gosh, that'sosh that you know I know exactly how to end that

sentence I know where to go next but I have discipline myself that that no it is best to just

stop let it sit there and jail overnight and things will be much better.

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