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[BadKat135]

When do you write your best work? What do you do when writers block gets in the way?

I tend to come up with my plots while intoxicated then write them the next day or so. I write horrible poetry to get over writers block, i figure purging the crappy stuff might bring back the good.

 

[lovecraft68]

When do you write your best work? What do you do when writers block gets in the way?

I tend to come up with my plots while intoxicated then write them the next day or so. I write horrible poetry to get over writers block, i figure purging the crappy stuff might bring back the good.

I get my best visuals when I'm laying in bed just before I fall asleep, or when I first wake up.

I can write pretty well while intoxicated, but the idea already has to be there.

I throw darts when I have writers block. Most of the time I'm not keeping score or actually playing. I just throw, get the darts, throw again, let the mind relax and wander.

 

[glynndah]

I can "write" any time, any place. It's typing it and tidying it up that's the issue.

 

[BadKat135]

I can "write" any time, any place. It's typing it and tidying it up that's the issue.

Oh i get that all the time! I figure out my story then go to write it down and it comes out so....bad. Just cheesy, and cliche, and with little or no grammatical prowess haha.

 

[glynndah]

Oh i get that all the time! I figure out my story then go to write it down and it comes out so....bad. Just cheesy, and cliche, and with little or no grammatical prowess haha.

Yep.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I like to write tween 3am and dawn.

Aint no such thang as writers block. You simply got nuthin to say.

 

[Saxon_Hart]

I can barely type sober, let alone drunk, but it takes a lot to get me drunk and I do enjoy a beverage while writing. I usually find my most prolific sessions come when I have to be to bed earlier or when I have to be somewhere shortly. Ideas hit me all the time, my desk top is covered with sticky notes. My biggest obstacle to writing is my dog. When he wants daddy time I end up facebooking or trying to type one handed.

 

[Bramblethorn]

When I have something else I really ought to be doing. Sleep, housework, tax returns...

 

[_Lynn_]

I write whenever I have a story to write . . . day or night.

 

[MSTarot]

I'm doing my very best work when I absolutely have got to go to bed and get some sleep so I can get up and go to work.

In the same vein I'm getting my best sleep exactly when I can't lay there any longer.


Seriously though I would guess about five in the morning. My work schedule has my sleep habits screwed up so on the weekends when I would like to be sleeping in I wake up and can't get back to sleep no matter what. So I get up and start writing. Pot of coffee, maybe a pop tart and I'm off to the keyboard races.

It's 10:25 here know I have to be up at 5:45 in order not to be late to work so I'm sitting here fighting sleep I don't want to go take by posting.

If I was to go try writing something right now I would be up till 1:00- ish.

M.S.Tarot

 

[slyc_willie]

Right about . . . now.

 

[Darkniciad]

When do I seem to have the most motivation to write?

At work when the best I can do is scribble notes on the back of scrap paper.

In the few minutes between getting everything ready to go to work and when I actually have to leave.

Late at night when I'm so tired that every time I close my eyes to visualize something I start nodding off.

When do I actually get anything accomplished?

Usually on the weekends, when I wake up long enough before the young one to have a chance to relax for a while first. When I pull that off, I typically end up writing all day long, even after he wakes up. There are many points during the day when he's not remotely interested in me, and off playing by himself, so I take advantage of it while my muse is still speaking to me.

 

[MatthewVett]

I usually write best when aroused. I haven't really found that any particular food or drink greatly affects me, nor the time of day, after the early morning.

 

[CeasarBoobage]

The 'when and where' doesn't matter so much to me, I just need to be un-disturbed.

People interrupting me makes me lose my train of thought and it takes a minute to get back into the scene. I can be 'alone' in a crowded bus commuting, or alone on the couch at a BBQ, and the noise and confusion don't bug me - as long as no one talks to me.

Story ideas and scenes I can write into my phone as a note. Since I can do that in 20 seconds, I frequently do that while talking to people. (that always makes me laugh inside)

Having a few drinks sure helps, and it can lead to better scenes, but needs more editing later while sober.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

When do you write your best work? What do you do when writers block gets in the way?

I tend to come up with my plots while intoxicated then write them the next day or so. I write horrible poetry to get over writers block, i figure purging the crappy stuff might bring back the good.

The earlier in the day that I can get started, the better the result in terms of both quantity and quality. I try to get a few hours of real work out of the way before I turn to writing porn, and unfortunately those are the best hours from a productivity standpoint. Most of my writing is done around my lunch hour (or two). If I haven't started writing by one in the afternoon, it's pretty much a lost day.

Ideas can come at any time. If I'm at the computer, I stop whatever I am doing and log them into my concept file. Otherwise, I struggle to remember until the next chance I get to record them. Most of the working out of stories is done while laying in bed before I go to sleep, in the shower, or while driving. By the time I sit down to write I pretty much know exactly where I am going and how to get there.

If I get writer's block, I just put it away for a few days or weeks. If I think I'm close to getting past it, I'll skip to the next section of the story and come back when I have solved the problem.

 

[MrPezman]

Fuck you, Writer's Block!

I spend a lot of my time writing, especially lately at work, thank you Sequestration! But I get ideas pretty much any time. Luckily, I always have my phone with me, so if I get an idea I think I can run with, I write it on the little notepad app. There have been times when I'm on my way home from work and an idea whaps me upside the head, like my story The Perfect Drug, and I was grinning all the way home like a complete simpleton. Or, for the idea of the story Because I Care, I was almost asleep. Unfortunately, I do get into a story and get stuck. So, to help with that, I work on a different story, or just free-write some dialogue, picking random people, putting them together to talk about a random subject, and writing down how I think their conversation would go. Or, maybe just masturbate for awhile, until I'm relaxed, wash up, and try again.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Suffering from that right now. I just finished a Novel and can't get into something else. So...I shoot people. *chuckles* In a game. I fly around in helicopters and airplanes and shoot people, tanks, jeeps, APC's. It relaxes me.

Then if I still can't get with the program...I just start typing. Doesn't matter what it is. Sometimes it leads to a new project, sometimes not. But it does free up the mind from all those daily things that sometimes get in the way.

 

[JJ_Kennedy_Smith]

Does insomnia give me hours available to write?
Does being preoccupied writing give me insomnia?

Is it the chicken or the egg?

 

[SamScribble]

I tend to plot my fiction pieces while I am doing non-thinking things like walking or showering or sitting on the train. And then I write it up and revise it - a few hundred words at a time - in between editing other people's non-fiction. I guess the fiction is a sort of comic relief.

 

[sheablue]

I get my best ideas in the shower, or driving in the car ... usually when I don't have the means to write it down and I repeat things to myself over and over until I get a chance to. I get my best writing done late at night, I'm tired, but I'm a night owl and I like to have the TV on in the background. I can't write if it's too too quiet.

 

[MrPezman]

Don't give up, though. Inspiration does happen, usually you might get a dopey grin on your face when you recognize it, or even get all emotional. I know I do!