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What's Your Ritual?
Starbeam:
Everything I do is extremely routine, almost to the point of OCD, except for writing. I write with music, silence, outside noises, office noises, or the tv. Or whatever happens to be the noises around me. I write in my little office-y type space, sitting on the bed, sitting at my work desk at lunch, Borders, or wherever. The biggest problem I generally run into is that my mind starts working on new ideas and scenes pretty much as soon as I turn out the lights and lay down to sleep. And as much as I want to get out of bed to work on it, I can't do that because it'll disturb my b/f, who wakes up at 5am, and it would take me even longer to get to sleep and that's enough of a problem already.
Currently, I'm listening to soundtracks and sitting in my blue room writing at my desk.
Gritti:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on October 10, 2009, 04:41:28 AM ---Everything I do is extremely routine, almost to the point of OCD, except for writing. I write with music, silence, outside noises, office noises, or the tv. Or whatever happens to be the noises around me. I write in my little office-y type space, sitting on the bed, sitting at my work desk at lunch, Borders, or wherever. The biggest problem I generally run into is that my mind starts working on new ideas and scenes pretty much as soon as I turn out the lights and lay down to sleep. And as much as I want to get out of bed to work on it, I can't do that because it'll disturb my b/f, who wakes up at 5am, and it would take me even longer to get to sleep and that's enough of a problem already.
Currently, I'm listening to soundtracks and sitting in my blue room writing at my desk.
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Interesting, OCD for everything but writing...I think I need to get my self a laptop because it would be
great to be able to write elsewhere too.
When you say blue room are you talking about the walls or is it your room for being sad in?
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Gritti on October 10, 2009, 05:24:25 PM ---
Interesting, OCD for everything but writing...I think I need to get my self a laptop because it would be
great to be able to write elsewhere too.
When you say blue room are you talking about the walls or is it your room for being sad in?
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I got a laptop for that reason, and I ended up sticking with pen and paper. Just flows better that way for me. But the laptop helps when I want to type up or look up stuff or whatnot.
And my blue room is my little office-y sort of space. The walls are painted a bright dark blue. With glow in the dark stars on them.
Kid Longshot:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on October 10, 2009, 08:10:08 PM ---I got a laptop for that reason, and I ended up sticking with pen and paper. Just flows better that way for me. But the laptop helps when I want to type up or look up stuff or whatnot.
And my blue room is my little office-y sort of space. The walls are painted a bright dark blue. With glow in the dark stars on them.
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Coool...can I has one?? *cute face*
Aludra:
--- Quote from: Kali on October 09, 2009, 03:10:17 AM ---I can't write in silence. I need music or the TV in the other room, something to ruffle the air a little. And of course if I'm out and about on my laptop I need music to prevent other peoples' chatter from distracting me. I'm a hopeless eavesdropper.
Plus, sometimes if I get stuck a piece of music can trigger a direction for a scene. It's happened more often than you'd think. ;)
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I'm a hopeless eavesdropper too.
One time I was at IHOP and the table next to us was very vocal about their issues... (Keep in mind the quality of said establishment, and now subtract about 2 levels of refinement, and now you're understanding what kind of issues). It was a very interesting breakfast. Made me really appreciate my family and their seemingly tiny issues.
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