Writing in bed

[EmilyMiller]

I went to bed early as I had a weird head. Medication and alcohol I think. Anyway, as a result, I woke up at around 6:30am and have been writing on my ‘phone since then (plus replying to a couple of PMs), while I wait for my boyfriend to wake up.

I’ve sketched some ideas about a new story and reviewed and extended my current work-in-progress.

Do you ever write in bed? Easier nowadays than with pen and paper I guess.

Em

 

[Andrew1968]

No, I need to write sitting up at my desk on my laptop. I do lie in bed and do final read throughs of stories. With those final read throughs, I'm just changing a word here and a bit of punctuation there. The heavy lifting of writing the first draft from scratch and then doing the main edits/re-writes takes place at my desk.

 

[EmilyMiller]

No, I need to write sitting up at my desk on my laptop. I do lie in bed and do final read throughs of stories. With those final read throughs, I'm just changing a word here and a bit of punctuation there. The heavy lifting of writing the first draft from scratch and then doing the main edits/re-writes takes place at my desk.

I never use a PC for any aspect of Lit, writing, forums, PMs. I try to keep it separate. All my stores were written on my ‘phone, which probably explains a lot.

Em

 

[ycym]

Oh, I like to be in bed, writing on my laptop.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I probably do 3/4 of my writing in bed, on my phone. Mostly sat up on some pillows, some lying down.

 

[Trionyx]

There are only two things which should be done in bed; sleep and sex, as any sleep medicine specialist will tell you. I violate this recommendation nearly every night but I am like A1968. I prefer to do the bulk of my writing at a desk.

 

[ycym]

There are only two things which should be done in bed; sleep and sex, as any sleep medicine specialist will tell you. I violate this recommendation nearly every night but I am like A1968. I prefer to do the bulk of my writing at a desk.

There is a solution for this: One bed to sleep and have sex, another one to write and have sex. Of cause, you can also sit at the desk, write and have sex.

 

[SimonDoom]

No, because I never write with my phone. I'm still amazed that people do that. I don't feel adept enough with the keys to do it and it feels weird. I write exclusively at my desktop computer in my home.

Plus, I'm an early riser and I wake up very quickly. So I tend to get out of bed right away when I wake up.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I must say I was worried about you Em. I visited the AH briefly sometime earlier, and I didn't see you start any new topic... Phew!

Anyway, on topic. I never write in bed, but I do think about my story in bed, and I actually had to develop a rule to stop all story thinking and writing at least an hour before bed, because thinking about my story has kept me awake on more than one occasion...

 

[BobbyBrandt]

No, because I never write with my phone. I'm still amazed that people do that. I don't feel adept enough with the keys to do it and it feels weird. I write exclusively at my desktop computer in my home.

Plus, I'm an early riser and I wake up very quickly. So I tend to get out of bed right away when I wake up.

This.

It doesn't help that I have the manual dexterity of a four-legged hoofed animal.

 

[PapaRomantic]

Bed time is my time to read what other Lit writers have written in the categories in which I usually write the most. I can't imagine trying to write in bed, just like I can't imagine trying to write on a phone! But I'm glad both work for others! My writing is on a laptop, usually at my desk because when I'm writing, I don't multi-task very well, and I end up spending more time fixing mistakes in typing and grammar than I would if I just use my laptop and not trying to watch TV or something else.

 

[SyleusSnow]

Bedtime is when all the ideas come, keeping me awake. Plot bunnies, dialog, characters, refinements to works in progress...

So I scribble them down because I know no matter how excellent the ideas are, by morning they'll be gone. And hopefully writing them down gives my stupid brain permission to shut off and let me sleep.

Of course, just like ideas that seem so excellent when you're drunk or stoned, those bedtime notes don't seem quite so brilliant in the morning. But usually there's something salvageable.

 

[EmilyMiller]

No, because I never write with my phone. I'm still amazed that people do that. I don't feel adept enough with the keys to do it and it feels weird. I write exclusively at my desktop computer in my home.

Plus, I'm an early riser and I wake up very quickly. So I tend to get out of bed right away when I wake up.

I used a phone before a regular computer. It’s what you are used to. I have toyed with buying a laptop just for Lit (and maybe watching porn), but I seem to get by.

Em

 

[MrPixel]

The most slovenly I get while writing is in my easy chair at our cabin with my laptop actually in my lap. The bed is for sleeping and for C to entertain her boyfriends. Shame on me for saying that out loud.

 

[TxRad]

Have you ever tried to write with someone's head bumping against the bottom of the keyboard tray?

 

[lovecraft68]

My eyes would pop trying to write on my phone.

I need to be sitting at my desk or out on the deck when the weather's good. I get a lot of ideas lying in bed half asleep, but I need to be less comfortable to get any work done.

 

[KeithD]

I write on a desktop in my office or, if I'm traveling, using a laptop on a desk. I don't have a smart phone and have no plans to have one. I don't write in bed, no.

 

[SamScribble]

A desk with a full-sized keyboard and large monitor is for writing. A phone is for conversing and texting. And a bed is for a couple of other things. Just sayin'.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Doing this again this morning .

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

I can write anywhere but I prefer my bed. I zone out and just type away. I get lost in my ideas, inspiration and creative nature. Everything just flows out and it’s hard to stop it once it starts. So the bed is a perfect place for me to unleash my writing.

And it’s so comfy, right ?

Em

 

[ycym]

Right.

 

[12oclocktales]

"You rise to play and go to bed to work," some famous joker said 400 years ago, and I guess, Emily, you'd agree. I find it too distracting, maybe because it's so comfortable. No pain, no gain.

 

[Comshaw]

I went to bed early as I had a weird head. Medication and alcohol I think. Anyway, as a result, I woke up at around 6:30am and have been writing on my ‘phone since then (plus replying to a couple of PMs), while I wait for my boyfriend to wake up.

I’ve sketched some ideas about a new story and reviewed and extended my current work-in-progress.

Do you ever write in bed? Easier nowadays than with pen and paper I guess.

Em

Never. I don't watch TV or read or play with any electronic device in bed either. Beds are for two things, sleeping and fucking (and all that is associated with that).

Comshaw

 

[yowser]

I sense an age/generational component to the responses here.

 

[KeithD]

I sense an age/generational component to the responses here.

Yep. I don't eat, drink, smoke or watch TV in bed either. I use bed for two purposes only. Well, three, I guess. I'll read in bed, but not often.