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I was talking to littlerhymes about writing a while back, and my curiousity compels me to ask, o friendslist:
How do you write?
Do you have a disciplined process, or do you just write when you get the urge?
Do you write longhand drafts, or type directly to computer?
Does it matter when you write? Where you write?
Do you plot all the sections out first?
I still mostly write longhand, into whichever is the most current of my neverending series of ringbound A5 notebooks. I tend to start with an idea, which I then think over and over until I think I have a sectioned story structure, and then I work a section at a time, whatever catches my fancy. This is why I get stuck for ages at a time, because I only write when I feel like I can, and not in a disciplined way.
First draft (or usually, half a first draft) will probably be in many many messy longhand sections, which I then type into a word doc, editing as I go, to sort out into something that usually doesn't resemble the original story outline, hee. Once it starts to get typed up, I then switch to a mix of longhand and typed writing, where sometimes I'll print out what I have so far to take on the road with me to continue in my notebooks.
I've written in lectures, on public transport (though this is always fraught with the paranoia that people sitting beside you are reading over your shoulder), in parks, in cafes, and sometimes, I'll admit, in sermons. I like to write when it's cold and rainy, and there's no one to disturb me (this doesn't happen much).
And I'm usually listening to music, but not necessarily music that's at all influencing or related to what I'm writing.
Now, over to you. Tell me please, friends, how do you write?
How do you write?
Do you have a disciplined process, or do you just write when you get the urge?
Do you write longhand drafts, or type directly to computer?
Does it matter when you write? Where you write?
Do you plot all the sections out first?
I still mostly write longhand, into whichever is the most current of my neverending series of ringbound A5 notebooks. I tend to start with an idea, which I then think over and over until I think I have a sectioned story structure, and then I work a section at a time, whatever catches my fancy. This is why I get stuck for ages at a time, because I only write when I feel like I can, and not in a disciplined way.
First draft (or usually, half a first draft) will probably be in many many messy longhand sections, which I then type into a word doc, editing as I go, to sort out into something that usually doesn't resemble the original story outline, hee. Once it starts to get typed up, I then switch to a mix of longhand and typed writing, where sometimes I'll print out what I have so far to take on the road with me to continue in my notebooks.
I've written in lectures, on public transport (though this is always fraught with the paranoia that people sitting beside you are reading over your shoulder), in parks, in cafes, and sometimes, I'll admit, in sermons. I like to write when it's cold and rainy, and there's no one to disturb me (this doesn't happen much).
And I'm usually listening to music, but not necessarily music that's at all influencing or related to what I'm writing.
Now, over to you. Tell me please, friends, how do you write?