Writing Meme Day 6
Sat, May. 8th, 2010 05:26 pm
( the questions )
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol’ pen and paper?
I can't write with pen and paper. I realise when I'm forced to (usually for an activity at school/uni) just how much I edit as I'm writing. I can end up with a page of handwritten stuff, but it's got so many scribbled out words and paragraphs and circled bits with arrows pointing them to the right spot that it probably only ends up being a quarter of a page in length, and virtually illegible. MS Word all the way, baby.
As for where... I don't think it makes a hell of a difference, to tell the truth. To get started it helps if it's a familiar computing environment--either my own computer or my laptop. I've tried writing on the uni computers in the library before and that's not worked. Laptop in the library, though, that's fine. Friends' computers sorta half-half. Once I get started it works okay.
My GOD the laptop addition to things had been brilliant. Out on the balcony in summer and early autumn is just gorgeous. Northern balcony is best for avoiding direct sunlight, western balcony is good until late in the afternoon when the sun comes over and glares in your eyes, eastern balcony has no couches and therefore sucks =( It has tables and chairs there for dinner instead. I've been known to take it into the garden, but that never lasts as long because the garden benches get a bit uncomfortable after an hour or so. Balcony on a warm summer night is wonderful, too. Over winter, I'll be down by the fire, but we haven't lit that up yet. I give it a week.
Time of day, eh, I'm easy. There's usually a point some time in the night when the brain just comes to a halt and nothing will get written, usually around 3-4am. Shuddup. When the muses want things written, you don't back away from them =(
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol’ pen and paper?
I can't write with pen and paper. I realise when I'm forced to (usually for an activity at school/uni) just how much I edit as I'm writing. I can end up with a page of handwritten stuff, but it's got so many scribbled out words and paragraphs and circled bits with arrows pointing them to the right spot that it probably only ends up being a quarter of a page in length, and virtually illegible. MS Word all the way, baby.
As for where... I don't think it makes a hell of a difference, to tell the truth. To get started it helps if it's a familiar computing environment--either my own computer or my laptop. I've tried writing on the uni computers in the library before and that's not worked. Laptop in the library, though, that's fine. Friends' computers sorta half-half. Once I get started it works okay.
My GOD the laptop addition to things had been brilliant. Out on the balcony in summer and early autumn is just gorgeous. Northern balcony is best for avoiding direct sunlight, western balcony is good until late in the afternoon when the sun comes over and glares in your eyes, eastern balcony has no couches and therefore sucks =( It has tables and chairs there for dinner instead. I've been known to take it into the garden, but that never lasts as long because the garden benches get a bit uncomfortable after an hour or so. Balcony on a warm summer night is wonderful, too. Over winter, I'll be down by the fire, but we haven't lit that up yet. I give it a week.
Time of day, eh, I'm easy. There's usually a point some time in the night when the brain just comes to a halt and nothing will get written, usually around 3-4am. Shuddup. When the muses want things written, you don't back away from them =(