What environment do you write in?

[alltherage]

Do you have a specific place or a time of day when you write? Do you listen to music or is the room silent? Indoors? Outdoors? I am curious.

I keep a pad next to my bed for dreams or ideas. I have only used it a few times and only once did it make sense when i was fully awake. Once was enough to make me want to keep it there.

I have notes and scribblings around me just about anywhere I go in my life. I am a scattered person and order of anykind makes me nervous. I tend too listen to classical music when I write. If i am writing about a violent situation I tend to listen to Hendrix. It seems to help me be more physically involved in the intensity of the moment.

Is writing purely cerebral to you. Do you react emotionally as you write? Do your stories turn you on? Just wondering.

 

[Guest]

I have a file cabinet filled with folders, one for each story/novel/screenplay idea I have. I usually work on several different projects rather than focussing on just one.

I write longhand between 6:30 - 8 in the morning, just before going to work. Half an hour on the bus, then about 45 minutes in a restaurant while having coffee and toast. At night, I edit and type what I've written into Word on my computer.

I like to have New Age music playing quietly in the background during my rewrites; it adds to my creativity. Also ABBA music tends to make me more creative for some reason.

If the story I've written turns me on, then I'm pretty sure it'll turn someone else on.

 

[SweetCherry]

Mine is all on floppies. I can't really read my own handwriting, so I type it up on the pc in text files. I don't usually have any specific sounds going on around me, and I don't have a set time to work. I am more spontaneious, waiting til something hits me, making a mad dash for the pc and getting it down and saved before I forget.

 

[P. B. Walker]

I have two places

I either write at work when it's really slow. In my job, from T-giving til just after New Years is an incredibly slow time. So most days I'm looking for stuff to do. For some reason, since I'm in that "work" mode, I can crank out alot of stuff. I have my radio playing, but not loud, just loud enough to drowned out the background noise you hear in most offices. I share an office, but my officemate travels for work alot, in fact, he's on travel for two months straight. So, it's really a private office. Plus, I have a really fast computer with two 21" monitors. It's really just the perfect work environment for me.

At home, I tend to get distracted too much. But have done alot of work there, usually with the TV on in the background. And while I have an even faster computer there with one 21" monitor, I still tend to get distracted more there. I tend to mostly edit stories at home or re-write a little bit.

If I ever became a serious writer and had to write at home, I would have to get a bigger place to live, one with a study that had no distractions. Having your computer in the living room with the TV and couch so close by just would not work for me.

- PBW

 

[weathered2]

My four little chapters of my one pitiful story were written with the three generations living with me bouncing off the f*cking walls. My wife says I really have the ability to ignore it all. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Probably shows in the big differences I think I see in the episodes, quality-wise, (or I just suck, or both).

 

[Erogenous Zone]

Genrally, I keep all my stuff on my computer and just pick it from time to time.

Usually I have several stories, poems, or ideas started concurrently. If I hit a mental block on a particular piece, I usually have another that kicks in from some random thought.

I get a lot of ideas during the day, doing normal stuff. Like my poem on visible panties lines evolved over thoughts, sights, fantasies, and notes on a recent airplane.

Most of my stuff comes from fantasies and thoughts of people that I meet or see in day to day life, so they do turn me while I develop them. Many of these come from or on my business travel.

 

[tigerjen]

nightowl

I'm usually a nightowl when it comes to writing......
in fact, the bulk of my poems up on Lit were originally
written between 1am and 6am......when I write, its
in a quiet environment, sometimes with music...sometimes
with just plain quiet......

 

[Caria Knight]

My first post on this board. Non of my stories have been submitted here yet but I was so glad to see that I'm not the only one. I too do most of my writting at work on the computer. My field is also EXTREAMLY slow from Thanksgiving to the New Year. I do some of the editing at home but seem to write better there. It kind of worried me a bit but I'm glad I'm not the only one.

 

[cellis]

I tend to write on my lap top sitting in my favorite chair where I can be comfortable... although I do take my lap top to work with me and sometimes have the time to write there, as well... I have just recently started writing again after several years away from it... and have not yet submitted anything... I did just send something to be edited and am awaiting feedback from him now and when I am finished that will be the first submission for me...

 

[susurrus]

For the longest time, I never thought I'd be able to think at a keyboard. I used to write everything out longhand, and then I'd type it all on a *manual* typewriter (if you don't know what that is, ask your mom, dad or grandparents. I didn't think I was really that old, (mid 30s) but I guess I am.)

I never really got used to writing at the typewriter. I tried a few times, but it never really worked out for me.

With computers and the almost immediate ability to correct typoos (damn), it made things a lot easier. Longhand, if I didn't like something, I had my delete key on the other end of the pencil.

Now I do all my "composing" at the keyboard. I don't bother writing down ideas, most of them are fragmentary enough I can keep track of them in my head until I get started with the story around them.

I'm living in the house I grew up in, and we put the computer in the room upstairs where my mother used to keep her sewing machine, so I have a nice isolated room to do stuff. I ususally like to work with no music or the like going, I feel I can concentrate on what I'm doing better, true or not.

I sometimes wonder how different a story would end up if I was able to sit all at once and put it down, rather than having to take time to eat, sleep, work, that kind of stuff.

 

[Wanderer D]

The story I submitted here was my first erotic piece, all of my other writing falls into the Fantasy or SciFi genre.

As for the original question, I seem to do my best writing with music in the background or on my ears. I've actually been the most prolific in the middle of a crowd at work during break or lull times. Even if I don't have the music, I can completely shut out everybody around me and write. Most of my writing has been in longhand on steno pads (easy to carry around).

To answer ATR's second question, I do react emotionally to the story and my one erotic story did turn me on to a certain degree, but I was mostly too busy tearing it down and rebuilding it.

 

[Erogenous Zone]

Wanderer D ---

Wanderer D - That story, "Damned", is a really a good story. Hope that you write more. The writing was excellent --- and it seemed to combine your interest or background in SciFi, fantasy, and the erotica --- intellectually written. It was different.

 

[Wanderer D]

My thanks, EZ. The woman is the main character from my non-erotic fantasy novel that I've been writing for the last few years.

 

[daughter]

a woman like me

Originally posted by alltherage
Do you have a specific place or a time of day when you write? Do you listen to music or is the room silent? Indoors? Outdoors? I
am curious.

***rage, I have two pc's now. Funny to me, considering I'm the most tech challenged person I know. I work on one, too. It's rare now for me to 'scribble' on paper.

I'm at my pc so much it borders addiction. I write incessantly not necessarily creative writing, but I write a good portion of my wake hours.

I have notes and scribblings around me just about anywhere I go in my life. I am a scattered person and order of anykind makes me nervous. I tend too listen to classical music when I write. If i am writing about a violent situation I tend to listen to Hendrix. It seems to help me be more physically involved in the intensity of the moment.

I write to music. It's arbitrary. I'm pretty scattered,too. Thank God, I now have technology to have provide me some kind of organization and storage. I enjoy something soothing when writing either jazz or classical. Ocassionally some r&b, but whatever it is, is must be unintrusive.

Is writing purely cerebral to you. Do you react emotionally as you write? Do your stories turn you on? Just wondering.

Ususally some kind of emotional turbulence or other emotional state typically inspires a writing session. My initial objective is to capture the essence of whatever the thoughts, feelings are. Later, I approach writing for what it is---a learned craft that requires effort, skill, dedication, and passion. Passion alone will not produce stellar writing.

I majored in English in school. I have a decent command of the basics. These days, I'm trying to hone my skills and style so my voice is clear and inviting.

While much of my work includes sexual and sensual elements, for the most part, I am interested in using them as conduits for exploring the complexity of relationships.

I enjoy good, literary smut so yes, I am sometimes aroused. The writing doesn't have to be overly complex nor literary, but it has to be creative, well-written. If not, it doesn't resonnate with me. Doesn't matter if I or someone else writes it.

I have been criticized for being too analytical. I don't think that's completely a bad thing. Take a deeper, second look into my personality and the body of my work, and I believe my passion, sensuality, playfullness, and sensitivity are evident.

For being 'intellectual', my poetry actually is written plainly, simply. My goal is to use everyday language to examine complex issues in terms we can readily identify with.

In short, I'm only long-winded with my prose.

Great topic, thread. Enjoyed this. Thank you.

Peace,

daughter

 

[Hitchhiker]

where we write

I write at work why? So I get payed to write.I also have an instant critic and he's hard sometimes in more ways than one then I know the story is getting there.

Keep learning

 

[Brandy Chase]

Writing environment

I'm new around here, and started writing erotica only three weeks ago. So, I've been reading all these posts and many stories in hopes of learning from others.
I've been writing in other genre for a few years and only recently have I developed the ability to write directly on my computer. I used to write everything longhand, in black ink only. Don't ask, because I don't know, it's just the way it was. Now I find writing directly on the computer much more convenient and time conserving. I actually had to work at it for a while. A year ago all creativity left when a keyboard was in front of me. I have worked passed that point now.
I create between midnight and 6:00 A.M. During the day time hours I edit and do the things I call mechanical stuff.
As for the writing environment, I find either silence or recordings of the sounds of nature in the background works best for me.

 

[alltherage]

Thanks to everyone who responded. Daughter having two computers who be my end I believe. I don't think I would ever get off the darn things.

 

[cellis]

Thanks to everyone who responded. Daughter having two computers who be my end I believe. I don't think I would ever get off the darn things.

LOL.... I have two... a desk top for home and a laptop I am almost never without....

The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is turn my computer on and then I make my coffee....

I take my laptop to work with me and plug it in even before I log on to the computer at work.... I just never know when those odds bits of inspiration with hit me and I want to be able to get them dowm before I forget...

and then at night I walk in and turn the computer on before I even listen to my messages...

even when I am watching tv, I have my laptop on...

Ok, Ok.... I know I am addicted... but I can't help myself and further more I don't want to.... LOL.... Life is good when you have a computer....

 

[SierraMyst]

I write on my computer between 10pm and 3am, with no lights on and music playing. I'm usually talking to someone online as well. And my writing *always* turns me on.

 

[Andreina]

se soire

I usually write at nights.... when everything is quiet and the films on TV suck. That's when I am pretty productive. Having said that, during boring lectures I can write pretty good stuff too

 

[Art]

Where oh where to do the writing

Personally, I love to do most of my writing at work! Yea, it beats the hell out of actually doing work at work. I find the time passes a lot faster too. Oh, I do some at home in the evenings and on the weekends, and used to do most of it then. But, there is nothing like doing it at work.

 

[The Sex Master]

Do you have a specific place or a time of day when you write? Do you listen to music or is the room silent? Indoors? Outdoors? I am curious.

I keep a pad next to my bed for dreams or ideas. I have only used it a few times and only once did it make sense when i was fully awake. Once was enough to make me want to keep it there.

I have notes and scribblings around me just about anywhere I go in my life. I am a scattered person and order of anykind makes me nervous. I tend too listen to classical music when I write. If i am writing about a violent situation I tend to listen to Hendrix. It seems to help me be more physically involved in the intensity of the moment.

Is writing purely cerebral to you. Do you react emotionally as you write? Do your stories turn you on? Just wondering.

I *SEE* in my mind what I write.YES ! If it's SEXUAL,I get turned on,but not near as much as when I read it back,and yea,I can write in ANY environment if it's something I think needs to be written right then and there.

 

[Hitchhiker]

TSm
It dam hard writting on bog paper!
But seriously send us the links to find your stories and work.
Like the avatar but is it copyright?

 

[alltherage]

TSm
It dam hard writting on bog paper!
But seriously send us the links to find your stories and work.
Like the avatar but is it copyright?

I give! What in the heck is bog paper?

 

[Blayde]

All my writing is at one of our computers, often in the middle of the night when the inspiration strikes me. I get most of the idea down, then come back later to edit my blurry-eyed typos