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Writing quirks
Starbeam:
Anyone got 'em? Like anything you have to do, or specific place to write, or whatnot?
My biggest one is that I have to write by hand on paper. And then type it up. I've been told that what I write on the computer is more stilted than otherwise. Or rather, my b/f pointed out one passage, compared to another that was much more organic and flowing, and that was the biggest difference.
meg_evonne:
none that I know of... unless it's visiting JB before getting busy writing.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I write on a laptop in bed, I susually have music for writing new sections though not for revising... I always set things to yellow text on dark blue background, but that's not a personality quirk, that's because I have weird eyesight... not sure of anything else that would count.
LizW65:
I write on a tilting laptop desk that I pull up to my bed. I prefer uninterrupted silence to write -- no music unless it's VERY quiet and instrumental, no TV playing in the background. Sometimes I play a couple games of solitaire if I'm agitated or stressed; it helps me relax and get in the "zone".
RobJN:
On days off, I make coffee before trudging to the old office. As the coffee maker gurgles away, I go over what i'd written on my previous stint at the keyboard. Once the coffee maker sighs its last, I fix myself a cup, and get to work on the next section with the fresh cup of coffee.
In most cases, I like to have background music running on iTunes, to help promote the ol' Delta wave-state. So I pick the tune on the playlist closest to the mood of the section I'm writing, and loop it.
In creative writing while I was in college, I had one piece that was written to a mix of U2 and the Cranberries. Normally, though, I can't work with English lyrics in the background, so I listen to either instrumental, trance, or foreign stuff.
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