I heard this story about a Gujarati author from his son.
Every morning, at 6 Am he will lock himself in an isolated room. There he may keep writing upto 2pm. During this time, none of his family members were supposed to disturb him or to knock at the door.
During his writing period, he would cut off himself from the outer world.
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I had read another story about a great English author.
He had a big house having several rooms.
He selected a small room at top floor. In the room there was no furniture. A board was fitted in wall. He can put his papers on this board and can write in standing position only.
The room was to be locked from outside by servant. Servant will open room only after 2 PM. Tea, food etc, will be served through a hole in the room.
While writing or standing, the author may get tired. He may want to sit or sleep or rest. But there was no furniture in room.
If he gets tired, he would have to sit or sleep on floor only. There was no escape from room as the room was locked from outside. The servant was instructed to open room only after 2pm.
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The underlining principles are 1) Isolation and 2) Discipline.
These are necessary to create great and original literature.
Moral of the story
With blessings of God, you may have good command on writing. You may be able to write nice articles and nice blogs.
But look at your writing again. You may feel perhaps that a soul missing in your writing. The life of most of your writing may be of few days, months or years.
Immortal writing are produced by those who cut off sizeable period of their time for outer world.
They have to enter into a trance. From this trance, they can write immortal pieces of literature.
Haresh Raichura
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