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logansrogue) wrote2006-02-28 02:06 pm
logansrogue) wrote2006-02-28 02:06 pm
Writing Quirks...
What are your writing quirks?
1. What do you habitually do before you start writing?
2. What helps you get/be in the mood to write?
3. Does enviornment matter? If so, what setting works for you?
4. Anything other quirkiness that would amuse us?
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I gacked this off of chocolatefrogsforbreakfast (I can't remember the shortened letters).
1. Relax. Read a whole bunch of what I wrote last. Sit there and let the characters talk to each other in my head.
2. Total relaxation. Inspiration.
3. Yes. Entirely. If I don't feel comfortable where I'm writing, I can't write. I like writing on the laptop in my room, or in the toilet. I don't like writing on the computer in the kitchen anymore.
4. I always have a playlist for each story I write. I like to have a real face for any character I create so that I can see them talk and express themselves.
I'm not really that eccentric when it comes to writing. Just anal.
1. What do you habitually do before you start writing?
2. What helps you get/be in the mood to write?
3. Does enviornment matter? If so, what setting works for you?
4. Anything other quirkiness that would amuse us?
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I gacked this off of chocolatefrogsforbreakfast (I can't remember the shortened letters).
1. Relax. Read a whole bunch of what I wrote last. Sit there and let the characters talk to each other in my head.
2. Total relaxation. Inspiration.
3. Yes. Entirely. If I don't feel comfortable where I'm writing, I can't write. I like writing on the laptop in my room, or in the toilet. I don't like writing on the computer in the kitchen anymore.
4. I always have a playlist for each story I write. I like to have a real face for any character I create so that I can see them talk and express themselves.
I'm not really that eccentric when it comes to writing. Just anal.
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And good answers *grins*
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2) Not having a stressful day at work helps. I love those days when I'm able to just get up out of bed and then write. When I can behave like a professional. Usually also the music I have playing helps.
3) So long as I'm not going to get distracted and/or interrupted it tends not to matter... most of the time though, when I write, I'm in my room.
4) I have a playlist for the things I'm writing. If I find a particular piece of music that works with a scene, I'll put that particular track on repeat, loud and write. As well as images for each of the characters I write, which are painstakingly researched, some of my characters also have specific music that comes from a particular instant in their 'life.' Some characters have more than one. For instance Ashna from the Sacrifice Trilogy has Inama Nushif and I Have Only Now from the soundtrack of the TV miniseries, Children of Dune and also Answer by Sarah McLachlan. She 'fought' for the last track with a few of the other people in my head - my characters often do that if there's a particular track they like. Yes I do consider them to be living breathing people... how could any author write someone that has no life?
This got kinda long, sorry.
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