some of her New York friends gave her a year's salary along with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas." She decided to devote herself to writing and moved into an apartment with only cold water and improvised furniture.
Harper Lee wrote very slowly, extensively revising for two and a half years on the manuscript of To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: Writer's Almanac.
That is the first I have heard of anyone famous having lived in an apartment with "only cold water and improvised furniture."
That is exactly what I am planning. Of course I plan to make solar warm water for bathing. I'll put eight gallon jug wraped in black plastic in the back yard each day. And for boiling water, I'll make a wood fire in the back yard.
As for imporvised furniture, I already have my eye on a plastic table I saw in a back alley, one with a hole in the middle the top surface. I thought I might make it flat with a board on top.
That, of course, does not make me a writer. For that I will need to dig deep into my own wells.
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