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What's Your Ritual?
Gritti:
--- Quote from: BobForPresident on October 05, 2009, 09:41:50 PM ---I hate to admit it, but I do my best stuff when I'm at work. :D
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So you add suspense to your life while writing...interesting. I'd like to try that but I work outside all day without access to a computer. I carry a pad around with me in case I get any ideas, but since I don't have any supervisors I can't get caught.
Kris_W:
I get up at 4:00 AM whether I want to be awake or not - my Muse keeps stealing my internal clock. I write raw text - new stuff, not editing or re-writes - for a couple hours or until the noises in the house and city begin and I actually do wake up. Then I eat, exercise, get cleaned up and have a fairly normal day. After dinner I edit or plan things out, and most nights I go to bed early so I can do it again the next day.
Getting up at 4:00 AM was never MY idea of living the writer's life. Bleah!
Most of the stuff like special music, incense or anal retentive desk organization is left for the editing stage where it has greater amusement value.
Gritti:
--- Quote from: Kris_W on October 06, 2009, 07:16:18 AM ---I get up at 4:00 AM whether I want to be awake or not - my Muse keeps stealing my internal clock. I write raw text - new stuff, not editing or re-writes - for a couple hours or until the noises in the house and city begin and I actually do wake up. Then I eat, exercise, get cleaned up and have a fairly normal day. After dinner I edit or plan things out, and most nights I go to bed early so I can do it again the next day.
Getting up at 4:00 AM was never MY idea of living the writer's life. Bleah!
Most of the stuff like special music, incense or anal retentive desk organization is left for the editing stage where it has greater amusement value.
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Bravo on being the ultimate morning person. I've been doing the graveyard shift myself and I'm finding it hard to burn the candle at both ends too many nights a week.
I thing every writer's desk must be a lovely whirlwind of notes , papers, and other junk. A photographer could do a lovely series on writer's desks.
Kris_W:
--- Quote from: Gritti on October 06, 2009, 12:23:16 PM ---Bravo on being the ultimate morning person.
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No, no - I'm not a morning person. My idiot Muse is!
meg_evonne:
Kris, please don't let my own muse know that via the ethernet or whatever!
What neat ideas. It was a fun read.
As for me, nonsense on TV or Heart and Soul or whatever on that Spa music station, re-read and edit the day before's work..sometimes I go farther back for a hard scrubbing of several chapters, then my brain cells are deep in the story and I start new stuff that I've spent a few days organizing in my mind. Then I don't stop, despite the lateness of the hour, until I'm done with that scene. Getting ready to sleep, I'm planning the next scene for the next session.
I confess that I read and write in complete oblivion of the real world. My five year old daughter refused to go on a vacation with me unless I promised to not read anything. In my best all day, all night writing event I awoke from my deep writing coma to find out that I'd been writing to the DVD loop track for one of the Gray's Anatomy Series. That sort of scared me. I mean hours and hours of a 30 second loop of repeat theme music? Shouldn't that kill my brain? :-)
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