Hello! I probably should have said hi when I joined huh? Anyways, I'm here because I love literature but I have a horrible time producing anything, so I was hoping this community could possibly help me out.
Anyways, in answer to your question I would say this: heat. Any place where I'm warm, I feel inspired. I get a lot of ideas in the shower especially, which sucks because you can't exactly grab a notebook to write them down there. But I also felt inspired a good deal while I was vacationing in Arizona. Summertime also tends to be a good muse season for me.
Basically, anywhere I can be and feel warm and relaxed, especially if it's outdoors in a dry, sunny heat. Those are the best places to get my ideas flowing.
I agree with you in the boring classroom. I seem to write better when someone's doing a lecture about something that I really don't care about. I go to my Biology and World Civ class just to write (which I haven't been to Civ in three weeks or so... I should go).
Also, I need music or something that I can tap my feet to and sing outloud. Or hell, a movie that I've seen a billion times works, too.
Other than that, I don't know. I haven't been to many places where I had the time to write. If I tried that on vacation, my parents (or whoever I'm with) will badger me about what I'm writing and as soon as they do that, my mind blanks and I can't write for the rest of the vacation. Oh how I hate that.
This is also weird, but I found lately that I write better in GoogleDocs than I do in Word... No idea why.
It's all mental. My actual writing can't be done handwritten, because I'm too distracted forming the letters and spelling and crossing out "not quite right" phrases. A computer gives me a delete key and no hand cramps. I also usually need to be alone in the house or hotel room (I've NEVER written outdoors), though I manage fine if it's just dad. (We share a house.)
I also tend to be unable to write if I'm stressed out, which this past year was due to having a job, and therefore being outside my house and in the presence of other people four days a week. (I quit after I started having panic attacks.)
The composition of the work -- imagining and rerunning scenes, assembling possible phrases and sentences, analyzing subplots -- I can do anywhere, and sometimes better away from the computer. Most of my mental composition occurs when I'm trying to sleep, to the point where just I go to bed when I get stuck. And I get plot bunnies all the freakin' time; they're quite fond of ambushing me on highways and in the shower.
I find I write best when I have a space of time in which I know I won't be interrupted. I have a tendancy to get sucked in by my writing and I really hate to stop before I'm ready. I think that's just practical.
Mostly, I write at the computer, late at night when everyone else is asleep. However, I'm pretty sure I can write anywhere. If I forget my little notebook, then I still have my palm pilot. It's kind of a pain to write in palm pilot letters, so I use that to jot down abbreviated ideas. (Those can sometimes wind up long, though.)
I found out that writing comes easier to me when I'm in the room I grew up in, at my mom's house. The dorm room however... writing doesn't go so good there. >.O That's only the real writing on the computer, though.
I doodle/prepare stories everywhere, though. On the back of a supermarket receipt when I'm short on paper, on a ticket on the bus... anywhere. XD But those are just ideas, sentence fragments if they hit.
I agree with the above comment, though. Upheaval disrupts the flow.
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Anyways, in answer to your question I would say this: heat. Any place where I'm warm, I feel inspired. I get a lot of ideas in the shower especially, which sucks because you can't exactly grab a notebook to write them down there. But I also felt inspired a good deal while I was vacationing in Arizona. Summertime also tends to be a good muse season for me.
Basically, anywhere I can be and feel warm and relaxed, especially if it's outdoors in a dry, sunny heat. Those are the best places to get my ideas flowing.
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Also, I need music or something that I can tap my feet to and sing outloud. Or hell, a movie that I've seen a billion times works, too.
Other than that, I don't know. I haven't been to many places where I had the time to write. If I tried that on vacation, my parents (or whoever I'm with) will badger me about what I'm writing and as soon as they do that, my mind blanks and I can't write for the rest of the vacation. Oh how I hate that.
This is also weird, but I found lately that I write better in GoogleDocs than I do in Word... No idea why.
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I also tend to be unable to write if I'm stressed out, which this past year was due to having a job, and therefore being outside my house and in the presence of other people four days a week. (I quit after I started having panic attacks.)
The composition of the work -- imagining and rerunning scenes, assembling possible phrases and sentences, analyzing subplots -- I can do anywhere, and sometimes better away from the computer. Most of my mental composition occurs when I'm trying to sleep, to the point where just I go to bed when I get stuck. And I get plot bunnies all the freakin' time; they're quite fond of ambushing me on highways and in the shower.
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Mostly, I write at the computer, late at night when everyone else is asleep. However, I'm pretty sure I can write anywhere. If I forget my little notebook, then I still have my palm pilot. It's kind of a pain to write in palm pilot letters, so I use that to jot down abbreviated ideas. (Those can sometimes wind up long, though.)
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I doodle/prepare stories everywhere, though. On the back of a supermarket receipt when I'm short on paper, on a ticket on the bus... anywhere. XD But those are just ideas, sentence fragments if they hit.
I agree with the above comment, though. Upheaval disrupts the flow.
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