30 minutes. Right after waking up. I sit down and write non-stop: not gibberish nor musings, but a "story", or at least a slice of one. Each is unrelated to the ones that came before.

Most of the time I don't know what I'm going to write. Sometimes it only materializes when I put my fingers on the keyboard and, blank-minded, produce a first word. It goes from there until I run out of time.

In a sense, I'm not writing as much as I am channeling human imagination. Channeling human feeling, human thought, human energy... tapping into this most human thing we all share and that the machines can, at best, only emulate.

For 30 minutes every morning. 

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The process:

1.	I write for half an hour. First thing in the morning, no interruptions. I let the words flow and don't spend too much time on any one thought or sentence.
2.	Once finished, I wrap up with some brief author's notes.
3.	The text sits idle for the rest of the day.
4.	At night, a single readthrough to fix any blatant spelling or grammar issues.
5.	Run the presses.
6.	Rinse and repeat.

I use no writing assistance tools-AI, auto-complete, or otherwise-though I confess that I haven't deactivated the squiggly red line that highlights likely spelling mistakes.