![]() ![]() Second, notice how at the end of each deep work session he leaves in place a creative ramp to help speed up his entrance to the next day’s session. Like Darwin making a fixed number of circuits on his sandwalk each morning, the brain can learn to associate certain environments with certain modes of thought. Here are three things that caught my attention about Tarantino’s routine…įirst, notice how he leverages a return to a specific and notable setting - his heated pool - to help support creative insight. Then I’d get out and make little notes on that, but not do it, and that would be my work for tomorrow.” And then, I have a pool, and I keep it heated, so it’s nice, so I go into it…and just kind of float around in the warm water and think about everything I’ve just written, how I can make it better, and what else can happen before the scene is over, and then a lot of shit would come to me, literally a lot of, a lot of things would come to me. I get up, so you know, it’s 10:30, or 11:00 o’clock, or 11:30, and I sit down to write…Like a normal workday, I would sit down and I would write until 4, 5, 6, or 7. He decided he wanted a more “professional” routine. “It all changed,” he revealed, “more or less around the writing of Inglorious Basterds.” Before starting work on the 2009 film, Tarantino described himself as “an amateur, mad little writer” who would work late at night, or by going to a restaurant, where he would “order some shit, and drink a lot of coffee, and be there for 4 hours with all my shit laid out.” ![]() ![]() Study Hacks Blog Notes on Quentin Tarantino’s Writing Routine June 30th, 2021 Ībout an hour into his recent interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Quentin Tarantino was asked about his writing habits. ![]()
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