Research findings

While researching writers and other creative types for his book Daily Rituals, Mason Currey found that a third got up before 7am. He concluded: “If I were going to extrapolate one lesson from the book, it would be this: Get up early and go straight to work.” I asked writers if they write at their… read more

I’m self-employed and work from home. Though I work across all seven days of the week I find certain days better suited to specific tasks, whether that’s catching up on admin, scheduling client work or finding time to write. I wanted to find out if other writers experienced a weekly pattern of productivity so asked… read more

For many writers September offers the opportunity of a new start to the year. Years of conditioning by the school term system has trained us to stock up on stationery, sharpen our pencils and start scribbling in our pristine notebooks at the first sniff of autumn. I decided to test this idea with other writers… read more

THE END can be the most satisfying words a novelist types. Yet completing a writing project is one of the most difficult things to do. My survey found that not only was finishing one of the main difficulties it was also the most popular measure of success. Many writers are motivated to write having “that… read more

85% of writers want to write more frequently. So why don’t they? I was intrigued to find out what the barriers are and why there is a gap between people’s ideal writing practice and the reality. Earlier this year I asked writers about their writing practice. The findings are in some cases obvious – of… read more