Here's how Ernest Hemingway described his writing routine:
"When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as
soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and
it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You
read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is
going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to
a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next
and you stop and try to live through until the next...
