15 Bizarre Creativity Techniques Used by Famous Writers

1 - James Joyce wrote lying on his stomach wearing blue pens and wearing a white jacket whenever he was fulfilling his writing craft - writing in large letters and wearing white clothes to reflect more light on the paper, Joyce, who had vision problems, could see better;

2. Virginia Woolf wrote every morning for two and a half hours at a high table, standing so that she could analyze her work at different angles and distances;

3 - Franz Kafka needed to feel exhausted to be able to unleash his creative side, so he had the habit of spending all day busy doing a thousand different activities, to start writing at 11pm and continue until 6am;

4. Journalist Truman Capote had some curious superstitions, and did not start or finish writing a text on Fridays, for example. Besides, Capote didn't feel well if there were more than two cigarette butts in his ashtray;

5 - Victor Hugo was quite radical when it was time to force himself to finish his work. He would lock himself at home without adequate clothing available to go out;

6 - The author of "Clockwork Orange" Anthony Burgess had the habit of opening the dictionary in random pages to raffle words he would use in some works he considered boring;

7) Writer Agatha Christie loved to eat apples while in her bathtub, analyzing pictures of murders;

8 - Alexandre Dumas wrote fiction on blue paper; yellow paper poetry; and your pink paper articles. Once, when running out of blue paper, Dumas used cream-colored writing paper, which he said had negatively influenced his writing;

9 William Faulkner filled his face with whiskey as he wrote;

10. Lewis Carroll, like Virginia Woolf, also wrote standing. Besides, he liked to use purple ink to write;

11. Ernest Hemingway had a writing goal, and wrote 500 words a day every morning. Once, in a letter he sent to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway said he writes one well-written page for every 91 pages of trash;

12 - Gertrude Stein was inspired by everyday life and the busy streets of Paris. Not infrequently she would start writing even when she was in the car;

13 - Jane Austen was very fond of thoroughly creating her characters, and wondered what their lives would be like even after the end of each work;

14 - Honoré de Balzac was inspired to write while drinking coffee - a lot of coffee, in this case: about 50 cups a day;

Writer Dan Brown believes that the best way not to have a creative block is to be upside down: for him, this "therapy" is the best way to relax and focus. In addition, every hour the writer releases his work, does stretching and floor exercises.