Writing Quirks...

[logansrogue]

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.

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[cedargrove.livejournal.com]

1) Usually start WMP and light a candle.

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.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

That's okay! It's nice to see other people's writing styles and quirks. We kinda have very similar ones! :D

[cedargrove.livejournal.com]

Yeah we do. No wonder we get along so well.