What conditions do you write best in?
Is there a particular place your write best in? When do you write?
By hand or typed or both? Music while writing or no music? Indoors outdoors etc..
What conditions do you write best in?
Is there a particular place your write best in? When do you write?
By hand or typed or both? Music while writing or no music? Indoors outdoors etc..
I find it impossible to listen to music whilst writing. I also like a clean and uncluttered desk; even bits of paper and pens have to face a certain way. I usually write on the computer when I have amalgamated all scraps of paper that I have scrawled ideas and notes on that suit a particular story. I don't like writing when other people are around. I am an old man in an oak panelled study with a hearty fire and a comfy leather armchair. A break in writing means a toot on the old pipe and looking out through French windows on to the quintissential English countrside. One can dream...
I used to write on a lap-top in a small bedroom and liked it there, being in a kind of burrow. For various reasons of practicality, I now do writing on a PC in the study area of my kitchen diner. This sometimes feels like being in a traffic corridor, but I can still get in the zone, in shorter bursts. Now and then I play music to help myself get started, but not for the duration of writing.