Non-conventional working hours
- Alice Munro wrote short stories during her children’s nap time or odd hours of the day.
- Toni Morrison used low-attention chores and commutes to work out plot problems.
- Nicholas Sparks wrote from 9 pm to midnight after his two small children went to bed.
- Benjamin Franklin read borrowed books at night and studied when others went for meals.
- Marcus Aurelius wrote 12 books of private journal during military campaigns against Germanic tribes along the Danube.
- Abraham Lincoln, as a farm boy, read every night, systematically working through every book in his neighborhood.