What's your favorite position?

[Arafura]

I love picturing people furiously at it, focused, driven, riding surging waves of creative pleasure. Lost in the long, lovely drunken maze of a frantic writing binge.

So...how do you write?

Lying down, scribbling in a notebook? Sitting in a chair or on a couch, warming your thighs with a laptop? Hunched in front of a desk, tapping away? Kicking back with your feet up, dictating your words into a microphone? Pacing the room as your dainty scribe notes down every phrase dropping from your lips?

Any thoughts on optimum limb positioning for sexy story output? Favorite methods? Music? Smells? Snacks? Drinks?

 

[Vermilion]

hah hah
got me


I sit on the sofa, my legs stretched out, pillows propping me up against the arm, laptop on my lap and the telly on (I like background noise).
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[Stella_Omega]

I miss the days of laying in bed with a spiral notebook, stopping my scribbling every so often when I needed both hands under the covers...

Alas, if I try that now, I mostly just fall asleep. Youth, why hast thou forsaken me!

 

[rgraham666]

I sort of slouch in my chair in front of my computer. Never could master that sitting up straight thing. And it's damn hard on the back.

 

[evanslily]

My preferred position is sitting on the settee with lots of cushions behind me, a V-shaped pillow across my lap so that the sides of the V wrap around me, my lap top resting on top of that pillow so I don't get warm legs. Pretty darned comfy--though it takes me forever to get back up again, LOL. Not great for answering the phone in a hurry.

 

[damppanties]

See, the first thought I had when I saw the title of the thread was... flat on my back, with my head slightly elevated and with the book on my chest, reading.

Now, to the question, the same as RG. In a chair slouched in front of the puter. I generally don't like any noise (easily distracted), but I wrote my last story to instrumental music playing very softly around me. I don't eat or drink anything when I'm writing. I do my best writing at night or in the late afternoon.

Also, I've written short stuff - poems and sketches of scenes / ideas in a notebook lying on my stomach on my bed with only a night light on.

 

[neonlyte]

Table in front of the window from where I can see the girls (and other people) in the park.

 

[oggbashan]

Wheeled office chair in front of L-shaped desk (bought from a famous cricketer) in my book-lined study. Desk cluttered with two computers; two printers; papers and CDs sliding towards the floor; cat under the desk close to heating system and the sound of the sea when the tide is in.

Og

 

[DocCIS]

Well, this was different than I thought it'd be...got me, hehehe....


For me it's in front of the desk, slouched down...similar to rg...

 

[jomar]

I'll chime in with another RG posture position.

 

[angelicminx]

Leaned back in my computer chair, usually with a cigarette burning in the ashtray. I don't generally have any noise in the background when I'm home alone. If hubby is home, his computer makes noise or the television is on. I've learned how to block it out for the most part. Occasionally, the radio is on in the background. If I'm engrossed in what I am writing a bomb could go off under my chair and I would continue typing undisturbed. If I'm not... Well, I could be in a sound proof room and still get nothing done for listening to the sound of my heartbeat.

 

[Arafura]

I switch between the computer slump and the cushioned relaxation of the armchair.

I love looking out of the window, too.

Sea sounds would be wonderful. I have city sounds.

I also like giving blowjobs in the middle of sex writing. I find this very inspiring.

Music, incense, and tea are also helpful.

 

[Stella_Omega]

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I also like giving blowjobs in the middle of sex writing. I find this very inspiring.

I don't have anything to say, I just wanted to hear you say this one more time

 

[Carnevil9]

Sitting erect at my desk (yes, in both senses of the word), martini at my left hand, cigar at my right. Music playing, always, usually Pink Floyd, Crosby Stills and Nash, or some other "comfort food" music from the 70s that my brain knows so well it doesn't really have to listen.

 

[tickledkitty]

Doggy.

Oh, wait. You mean to write? Slouched at my desk with a cup of tea.

 

[TE999]

Snugly ensconced in my office, at the puter console, hunched over the keyboard, bowl of candy or popcorn (sometimes both) at hand, glass of wine or bottled water likewise, my muse swinging her legs from her seat on my monitor and my mind feverishly churning out plot and dialogue.

What more could one author want?

Well, maybe a cold beer in lieu of the wine.

 

[Guest]

I switch between the table and in my easy chair, that's until the laptop starts to burn my crotch then it's hurry back to the table.

 

[cloudy]

On the couch with the laptop, tv on, cup of coffee or coke at my left, cigarette in the ashtray.

No one else at home.

 

[MagicaPractica]

On the couch with the laptop, tv on, cup of coffee or coke at my left, cigarette in the ashtray.

No one else at home.

I have three locations.

One is on my bed, lying on my stomach with a notebook under my right hand, I don't even look at it, just let my hand scribble. This is when I'm trying to fall asleep but inspiration strikes. Yes, I actually can read it afterwards, just barely, usually.

The second is on my couch with my feet up on the hassock and a spiral notebook on my lap, pen in hand. The TV is on for the dog.

The last is here, in my big comfy exec chair in front of my old sewing machine table that holds my computer, with a drink on my dragonfly coaster. God! There's too much stuff in this room.

 

[Guest]

I have three locations.

One is on my bed, lying on my stomach with a notebook under my right hand, I don't even look at it, just let my hand scribble. This is when I'm trying to fall asleep but inspiration strikes. Yes, I actually can read it afterwards, just barely, usually.

The second is on my couch with my feet up on the hassock and a spiral notebook on my lap, pen in hand. The TV is on for the dog.

The last is here, in my big comfy exec chair in front of my old sewing machine table that holds my computer, with a drink on my dragonfly coaster. God! There's too much stuff in this room.

You do pen and paper? Bravo. I didn't think writers did that anymore. I do that on the fly for writing poetry and snips of story writing. You never know when you'll come across an interesting character or scene description.

 

[cloudy]

You do pen and paper? Bravo. I didn't think writers did that anymore. I do that on the fly for writing poetry and snips of story writing. You never know when you'll come across an interesting character or scene description.

I do the pen and paper thing if I get stuck. For some reason, having to manually write a scene out unsticks me.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I do the pen and paper thing if I get stuck. For some reason, having to manually write a scene out unsticks me.

Yes! I've found the same thing.

 

[Guest]

I do the pen and paper thing if I get stuck. For some reason, having to manually write a scene out unsticks me.

Me too. Maybe you're a kinesthetic learner?

 

[cloudy]

Me too. Maybe you're a kinesthetic learner?

I probably am, although when I was in school, they just thought I was a little out of control.

 

[Varian P]

I do the pen and paper thing if I get stuck. For some reason, having to manually write a scene out unsticks me.

Mmmmhmmmm.

Usually, I'm attached to my laptop. But writing with pen and paper puts me in a completely different mind-set. It's all about going forward, rather than jumping back and forth, editing earlier paragraphs when I'd meant to be getting the new stuff out.

Plus, I still love the scent of paper and ink, and the feel of my notebook. It's the hand cramps that kill me, though.