Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens are in the new vanguard of authors articulating atheism (Mr Harris thinks that people who are more moderate in their religion still do harm through a religious habitofmind that is no less irrational than fundamentalism).
The idea is that if you can get in the habitof writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day.