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Post by brosephargh on May 30, 2011 18:54:08 GMT -5
At your desk? In your bed? On your back porch? On the beach?
Personally, I like to sit somewhere airy, outdoors, and comfortable. My family had a beach house over the summer, and the back porch during the late afternoon was absolutely breathtaking, right on the ocean. It helped me write many things.
What about you guys?
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Post by Olive on May 30, 2011 19:02:23 GMT -5
I write... anywhere. In the past year, the bulk of my fiction has probably been written in classrooms, at the back of notebooks while I tune out of the lecture. But I've been content writing in my chair, squished in a darkened car, in a cafe, huddled on the floor next to someone else's couch, and on the beach.
Oh, the beach. I love that I'm so close to it! I think that's really where I started writing for me again, about a year ago. It's a wonderful atmosphere, and if the weather is nice it's a great place to people watch for minor characters.
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Post by brosephargh on May 30, 2011 19:06:45 GMT -5
I could definitely write in a cafe too! That actually sounds lovely. There's a cute place on my university's campus called Cool Beans that's an adorable little coffee shop made out of what used to be an old house. It's wonderful, I should try writing there sometime.
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Post by Silva on May 30, 2011 20:08:57 GMT -5
I wrote a lot at school. I write very well on desks, apparently. I love writing in cafes though, it always seems so... I don't know, writer-like?
Certainly I'm good at writing in a car (notebook or a laptop)...
When I'm at home I write with my iPod on (downstairs) or upstairs in my boiling hot room, which makes it harder to write.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on May 31, 2011 0:01:10 GMT -5
I write primarily on my desktop. Sounds boring, but I'm making the mental shift from "recreational writing" to "professional writing," and it's hard to think of something as my-job-which-I-have-to-do-or-I-don't-eat-this-month when lounging under a tree (alas).
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Post by Olive on May 31, 2011 7:47:39 GMT -5
I write primarily on my desktop. Sounds boring, but I'm making the mental shift from "recreational writing" to "professional writing," and it's hard to think of something as my-job-which-I-have-to-do-or-I-don't-eat-this-month when lounging under a tree (alas). I think that's part of the draw of being a professional writer, though. Really, you can do it wherever you please. While it might feel more professional to sit down at a desk, being all reasonable and habitual and whatnot, you might be losing out on productivity if you don't take some time to go and be where inspiration strikes you. Unless, of course, inspiration always strikes you at your desk when you want it to. Then you're just a lucky bastard, heh. |
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Post by alyoshka on May 31, 2011 23:42:22 GMT -5
I prefer to write far away from internet access and all potential distractions. So, that would be somewhere in the middle of nowhere like a grassy field or somewhere pretty.
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Post by Silva on Jun 1, 2011 0:26:50 GMT -5
Without internet access... that sounds pretty good. Right now I'm posting on this forum instead of typing.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 1, 2011 0:32:26 GMT -5
Right now I'm posting on this forum instead of sleeping! And I have a meeting in 7 hours. Wheeeeee so professional I am.
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Post by alyoshka on Jun 1, 2011 0:32:38 GMT -5
Without internet access... that sounds pretty good. Right now I'm posting on this forum instead of typing. ugh I hate that temptation to use thesaurus.com. >< |
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Post by Silva on Jun 1, 2011 0:34:21 GMT -5
It makes me feel so terrible and unintelligent to use thesauruses of any sort.
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Post by alyoshka on Jun 1, 2011 0:36:52 GMT -5
It makes me feel so terrible and unintelligent to use thesauruses of any sort. same.. Only for absolute emergencies. |
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Post by pjthefey on Jun 7, 2011 20:10:33 GMT -5
For most writing it is the kitchen table. The upright position of the chair and hard wood beneath me keeps me alert while I have easy access to fuel (that is to say food) to keep me going for marathon writes.
That said, my preferences vary a little depending on the type of writing. My best poetry is usually crafted in bed or wherever I happen to be (besides the bathroom) after getting out of the shower. Depending on what part of game writing I am working on, it's a toss up between bed, kitchen table and futon. I find that different environments encourage different types of thinking, and I need to be in the proper "mode" to suit the writing.
Generally speaking cafes are a good idea that do not work for me. Something about being in the presence of strangers or even casual friends mucks me up. I can however write with people I live with wandering around. I guess I just need to feel comfortable enough to step into my own mental realm of the familiar to explore what my mind has to offer to the ink and paper gods.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 7, 2011 20:14:57 GMT -5
In Barnes and Noble during November while competing with a dozen or so fellow writers to see who can write the most words in fifteen minutes, also known as a "word war."
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 7, 2011 21:59:05 GMT -5
I write more when I'm at a desk than when I'm sitting on my bed. Coffee shops are also a great bet.
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