HEMINGWAY’S SECRET TO MAINTAINING PRODUCTIVE MOMENTUM – Fast Company

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BY DRAKE BAER

To Ernest Hemingway, writers are like wells: “The important thing is to have good water in the well,” he told the Paris Review, “and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.”

In this way, Hemingway coined the phrase leaving water in the well: instead of spending all your creative juices all at once, you leave a little bit of inspiration so that you can return to the same momentum that you left it with. Hemingway, whose habits of badass productivity we’ve talked about before, said to never stop writing without knowing how you are going to start again, to, in other words, never end a day’s work without knowing how you are going to start the next day. Read more here http://www.fastcompany.com/3021905/work-smart/hemingways-secret-to-maintaining-productive-momentum

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