Writing Habits

BrokenSword · 2007-08-06T08:07:18Z

All writers have habits of theirs, strange or not, that may or may not help their writing (many famous authors have enjoyed writing while naked :shock: ). I don't write naked, heh, but I have some writing habits. For instance, I find it hard to write in the morning and the middle of the day. In fact, I write best late at night, from about 11 PM to 1 AM. Note the time of my post; I am still very much awake after finishing a chapter of one of my stories. :twitch: It is difficult for me to write when I don't have an internet connection. I can still write, but I like to minimize browsers with my research articles, other people's stories, or discussions I am in. For some reason, reading or looking at my comfort sites on the web helps me write more smoothly. Maybe it's like writer's porn or something. :lol: I like to have pictures of the current scenery in my stories. I'm going to be writing a chapter set on a beach soon, so I have a dramatic black and white picture of a beach on my desktop. It really inspires me. I will change the picture when I come to a different scene in the story. :) Do you have any?

Writing habits. Hmm... let me think.

When I write I always turn off my Internet to stop me getting distracted, and I have to have absolute silence when I'm writing or I can't come up with ideas. Another habit of mine is that I write on book-sized document pages in Word (rather than A4) so that it looks as though I've written a lot in a short space of time.

Where fonts are concerned I'm weird. Depending on the genre I use different fonts - sans serif for sci-fi and book-style font for fantasy. Also, I find I can overcome writer's block simply through a change of fonts, which is kind of strange.

I also tend to write from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed, if I'm on a roll. I get absorbed in my fantasy world and it's very difficult for me to break out of it.

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