Simon Okotie's Writing Day

I have Simon Okotie's The Future of the Novel waiting for me to read it, and his Twenty Questions entry in the TLS is a good enough reminder to push it toward the top of the TBR pile.

As a freelance editor and writer who also has a nonfiction book proposal making the rounds of potential agents and a fiction writer with a novel draft in its early stages, I am fascinated by how other culture workers get everything done every day.

Here is Okotie's answer, which seems so appealingly tidy, relatable, and doable:

What does a writing day look like for you?

I write fiction on Wednesday and Sunday mornings between March 1 and October 31 (inclusive). Pre-pandemic I would mostly have written on the first floor of cafés in central London (and I am always on the lookout for new multistorey cafés in the city); now it is more likely to be at home. I write non-fiction or edit my novel-in-progress on the other days of the week (and during the winter), which is something I do at home or even in a ground-floor café. All of this is done around the edges of my (freelance) day job.

I have devoted certain hours of every day to creative work, admin work, and freelance work, but I have not devoted days to different types of creative work. I may give it a whirl.

If you've made a shift in your creative practice, share! I love a quirky practice.

Edited to add: My dog was bouncing around in anticipation of morning walkies, and forgot to add the link to the article: https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/twenty-questions/twenty-questions-interview-simon-okotie