Where and how do you write?

[Purdy Bear]

Where do you write and what with?

I get most of my stories early morning and write them down, long hand in a note book and then doze off again. I then put them onto the computer afterwards.

I have had the awful event of looseing four chapters of a story when a disc went caput.

 

[Talysia]

I tend to write a lot late at night, when it's quiet, and I write it all down longhand first. I can type it up later, but I get more inspiration at night and with an old fashioned pen and paper.

 

[chopper]

Always better with pen & paper, & usually - oddly - away from home.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I tend to do my best writing in the morning, but it's not always possible to get an early start.

Sometimes I'll scribble things down in notebooks, but these days it's mostly on the computer, then I print up what I have and edit it by hand. (A habit I picked up when I was writing on a typewriter.)

Once I have what I want, I always print up hard copy, and usually save it on two separate discs as well. Yes, I am paranoid, but I've never lost a chapter.

 

[j d worthington]

I prefer writing in late afternoon/early evening or very late at night (the small hours). However, my current employment doesn't allow for such, so I have to snatch what time I can for my writing... a little here, a little there. In doing so, I'm having to learn an entirely new set of practices and procedures to do my best work... so it's not an altogether negative thing (though darned if I feel at all comfortable with it....)

As for how... oddly, with fiction, it tends to be on the computer or typewriter (when I have the latter), with nonfiction, pen and paper for the first two drafts....

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

As for how... oddly, with fiction, it tends to be on the computer or typewriter (when I have the latter)

You mean there are still typewriters outside of museums?

 

[HoopyFrood]

I'm a night owl, too, so I work best late at night (which is why it's currently 3:50am and I'm doing work ) I don't have much time for writing my own things lately, but when I was doing it regularly, it used to be late evening when I would sit at my computer for a few hours, typing. Now, when writing pieces for my creative writing class or writing essays for other modules, it's usually done in the small hours. And generally with pen and paper for the first draft at least. I find the words flow a little easier when writing it this way.

 

[j d worthington]

You mean there are still typewriters outside of museums?

Well, as I'm something of a dinosaur myself... I wouldn't want to swear to that....

 

[HoopyFrood]

I used to have a typewriter...unfortunately stuck on captials and had no full stop, so I had to use stars instead. Used to love bashing away on the keys of that beast...

 

[j d worthington]

There's a story (irrc) Moorcock tells about resigning from ... Fleetway, I believe it was ... by walking over and dropping his typewriter from the 5th(?) floor window....

 

[TheUltimateChosenOne]

I write pretty much any time of the day. I tend to get more ideas at night when I go to bed, so I have to keep my note book near by bed.
I also like to write when I'm outside surrounded by nature. I get more inspiration when I'm in a certain location that my story takes place in. (Kind of like being 'on location' like in the film buisness).