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Originally Posted by Frownland
I was wondering what all of your (for lack of a less douchey word) processes are for writing.
For me it depends on what I'm writing. When I'm doing it for work I can just buckle down and get it done whenever and wherever, but with fiction it's a little different. I like to be in a dark room, by myself, very drunk, while listening to slow, melancholic modern classical such as Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet, John Cage's A String Quartet In Four Parts, and David Sylvian's There's a Light That Enters Houses With No Other House in Sight (the lyrics aren't as distracting as you'd think).
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When I need/want to write something, I set a timer for an hour and force myself to sit and do nothing else for that time period. The first 15 minutes are hell—for some reason I hate writing when I'm not warmed up—and if I don't have the time blocked off, I tend to give up. Usually that hour will generate ~500 words by hand. I type the second draft.