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Questions to ponder part 11
mare:
I can bug you if you really want me to but be careful what you wish for lol
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on January 12, 2014, 04:52:32 AM ---I came up with a few ideas last night that I know will only ever be just ideas. lol
Something else I learned about myself is I do get more inspired after reading something really well written and interesting fanfic wise. I never really thought that helped but it does.
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That has always helped me too. Reading great stories tends to inspire ideas of my own and motivates me to write better.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: usako on January 12, 2014, 04:56:36 AM ---
I can't write if there is too much silence so I have to have at least the music on, though on low volume. But I have the same problem, when I'm into writing I really get sucked in and can write an entire scene in a day. But it takes really so much to get in that mood that, usually, I end up not writing at all. lol
That's something that I really want to change.
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I'm like that too. Because it often takes me all day to accomplish anything, if I don't have a whole day to write, I usually don't bother, unless I'm really inspired. Last week I thought I'd try writing for an hour before bed every night, in place of reading, but I tried it one night and got absolutely nothing written because of that hour deadline hanging over my head. It was like, well even if I get on a roll, I'm going to have to stop in an hour, so why bother? It usually takes me more than an hour to get started on a scene from scratch. If I'm in the middle of a scene, it's easier to pick up where I left off and keep going. Sometimes I deliberately stop in the middle of a scene so that next time I sit down to write, it's easier to get started because I already know what comes next.
RokofAges75:
What's your weirdest writing habit?
I do a lot of thinking in the shower, and I tend to get inspired and start writing scenes in my head while I'm taking a shower, but then I would get out and lose my flow by the time I got to where I could write the words down. So, at a friend's suggestion, I invested in a set of bathtub crayons from Toys 'R' Us - the kind little kids can use to draw on the tub walls - and I keep those in my shower for when inspiration strikes. Sometimes my bathroom looks like a crazy person lives there because if you look closely, there are words scribbled all over the shower walls. Bathtub crayon, I've learned, does not wash off as easily as it should. So that's going to be fun, trying to remove all traces of fanfic writing from the walls when it comes time to move out of this place. But I still do it because, hey, it actually does help! I just wrote a whole paragraph down one wall and now have a beginning for a new chapter of a story, which I wasn't sure how I was going to start before I stepped into the shower. So that's one weird habit I have. What are yours?
emilo:
I am a shower writer, too! The shower is just where I do my thinking and relaxing, and for whatever reason, the creative juices totally get flowing while I'm in the shower. I'll write entire scenes in my head while showering then sometimes write them down, sometimes not. It had never occurred to me to actually write in the shower with bath crayons. I love that!
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