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What Is The Morning Writing Effect? · Gwern.net

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Many writers anecdotally report they write best first thing early in the morning, apparently even if they are not morning people. Do they, and why? BP personality, mental energy, writing psychology, survey, Google Er­ic­s­son1993 notes that many major writ­ers or re­searchers pri­or­i­tized writ­ing by mak­ing it the first ac­tiv­ity of their day, often get­ting up early in the morn­ing, work­ing only a few hours and then spend­ing the rest of the day on other things. This is based largely on writ­ers anec­do­tally re­port­ing they write best first thing early in the morn­ing, ap­par­ently even if they are not morn­ing peo­ple, al­though there is some ad­di­tional sur­vey/software-logging ev­i­dence of morn­ing writ­ing being ef­fec­tive. Er­ic­s­son was wrong about many things, so I won­dered how true this was. I com­pile all the anec­dotes of writ­ers dis­cussing their writ­ing times I have come across thus far. Do they, and why? Pre­lim­i­nary re­sults from ~400 writ­ers and as­sort

--- title: What Is The Morning Writing Effect? description: Many writers anecdotally report they write best first thing early in the morning, apparently even if they are not morning people. Do they, and why? created: 2011-05-11 modified: 2024-03-01 status: in progress confidence: possible importance: 4 css-extension: dropcaps-kanzlei ... > Ericsson 1993 notes that many major writers or researchers prioritized writing by making it the first activity of their day, often getting up early in the morning, working only a few hours and then spending the rest of the day on other things. This is based

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