The Hemingway Bridge: Use Yesterday’s Momentum Today Ernest Hemingway was one of the most recognized and influential novelists of the twentieth century. He wrote in an economical, understated style that profoundly influenced a generation of writers and led to his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Besides his prolific works, Hemingway was known for a particular writing strategy, which I call the “Hemingway Bridge.”2 He would always end a writing session only when he knew what came next in the story. Instead of exhausting every last idea and bit of energy, he would stop when the
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