Jonathan Franzen's gruelling writing regime - to which his ex-wife Valerie Cornell subjected herself for years - has assumed an almost apocryphal quality.
Luckily for him, Hannah's writing regime fits perfectly with his day job, which he is not planning to quit just yet.
She once described her writing regime thus: "I keep a hotel room in which I do my work – a tiny, mean room with just a bed, and sometimes, if I can find it, a face basin.
Yes, coming-out angst is a fact of LGBTQ life, but "The Young And The Restless"'s new writing regime would be wise not to predictably fall back on it.
A.J., a long-time fan favorite who was "killed off" years ago by a previous writing regime in a ridiculous sweeps stunt storyline, recently returned to the canvas, only to once again become a punching bag for the borderline insane Sonny, who had previously tormented A.J. for years.
"Now that the ANC has moved into power," he writes, "its regime sadly must be branded as the enemy of the people".
In December five countries met to persuade North Korea to accept a verification regime written by its ally, China.
The Court of Appeals decided last month to strip General Pinochet, who is a senator for life under the Constitution written during his regime, of his immunity.
Even Nineteen Eighty-Four, that darkest of literary visions, does not end with a boot stamping on a human face for ever, or with a broken Winston Smith feeling a drunken love for Big Brother, but with an essay about the regime written in the past tense and in standard English.
And yet, even the best-informed experts would admit that a lot of what's written about the regime is based on guesswork.
