![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I write longhand, sitting on the ground and I don’t stop or allow myself any more food or water until I’ve written 2,000 words. Wake up at dawn, run six to eight miles, eat three hard-boiled eggs, wash them down with a quart of black coffee. The same thing happens when he takes time away from writing, he said: “Ding, update from your brain: ‘here’s a sentence that might be interesting.’”īelow, Yu also discusses how the 2016 election made him reconsider the framing of the American dream - and thus served as the inspiration for “Interior Chinatown” - plus some valuable advice his wife gave him while he was writing the book. He likens the process to when a computer has programs running in the background - you might not see the central processing unit in action, but every once in a while you might get an update from the progress bar. “What I do is try to frame a question or idea in a useful or interesting way, set my subconscious to work on it, and then check back later to see if there’s been progress,” Yu said. ![]() “Ding, update from your brain: ‘here’s a sentence that might be interesting.’” ![]()
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