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In the spring of 1934, a young aspiring writer named Arnold Samuelson (middle, above) hopped a train from his home in Minnesota to Key West with the hopes of meeting Ernest Hemingway (left, above) to talk about writing.  The two met and for the next year, Samuelson became a deckhand on Hemingway's brand new fishing boat, Pilar.  

The following is an excerpt from a 1935 Esquire essay that Hemingway wrote about the experience titled, "Monologue to The Maestro: A High Seas Letter".  Your Correspondent (Y.C.) gave Samuelson the nickname "Maestro," abbreviated to "Mice" below ...

Y.C.: When you start to write you get all the kick and the reader gets none. So you might as well use a typewriter because it is that much easier and you enjoy it that much more. After you learn to write your whole object is to convey everything, every sensation, sight, feeling, place and emotion to the reader. To do this you have to work over what you write. If you write with a pencil you get three different sights at it to see if the reader is getting what you wanted him to. First when you read it over; then when it is typed you get another chance to improve it, and again in the proof. Writing it first in pencil gives you one-third more chance to improve it. That is .333 which is a damned good average for a hitter. It also keeps it fluid longer so that you can better it easier.

Mice: How much should you write in a day?

Y.C.: The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck.  That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

Mice: All right.

Y.C.: Always stop when you are going good and donʼt think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start. Once you are into the novel it is as cowardly to worry about whether you can go on to the next day as to worry about having to go into inevitable action. You have to go on.