SOLVITUR AMBULANDO
How Walking Helps My Writing
Don’t write off walking
As the future best-selling author of more than 250 novels, I’ll be often asked how I’m able to write every day. I’ll tell you— walking. Walking makes writing look like a walk in the park. I never walk in the park, though. Too many kids. I have pedophobia.
A Stanford study says, and you can’t fuck with a Stanford study:
The more you walk, the more you awaken your creative thinking.
Even when I sleep, my creative thinking mode is wide awake. That’s how much I walk when I’m awake.
Every day, before I start writing, I start walking, at 6 a.m. As soon as I come back home at 2 p.m, I start typing ruthlessly. Eight hours of constant walking rouses my sense and imagination. As a result, I write 40 to 60 words before I nap for 4 hours. You have to nap before you walk again.
I wake up and go for a brisk walk again from 7 p.m. until midnight. Some cynics say I’m sleepwalking due to fatigue. The joke is on them. Because guess what — I’m still walking, knuckleheads.
I come back home and I write again — in my dreams. Don’t ever let your walking go down the drain. That’s like walking 101. Inception movie taught me five minutes in the real world means an hour in a dream. So I write a lot in my dreams.
On an average day, it only takes me between 30 to 39 miles of walking to write 60 words. Even my Fitbit gets tired and loses count. I don’t.
When you walk, your brain gets more oxygen. My brain is full of oxygen like a high-pressure aircraft tire. I feel like bursting at any minute.
Mediocre writers get writer’s block issues. I don’t. I only get roadblock issues while walking. But they can’t stop me. I turn around and walk back.
Some know-it-all might say I could be writing instead of spending time walking. Get this — because of my walking, I write more efficiently, effectively, and creatively. Besides, I’ve tried writing while walking to save time. Believe me, you can’t do both at the same time.
I also tried to fast forward the whole process by running. It didn’t work. I couldn’t think. I was zoned out. I should’ve known I was walking a thin line between being zoned out and becoming creative.
There’s a Latin expression Solvitur Ambulando to back my claim. You can’t fuck with Latin. It translates to — it is solved by walking.
I have a minimum of 450 aha moments a day while walking. I take notes of those moments on my iPhone, on which I’m running out of space now.
I’ll tell you what I thought when I walked yesterday — For all the walking zombies do, they should be the most creative creatures in the Universe. Sadly, they’re brain-dead. You aren’t. Start walking.
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