Today I posted my first discussion, and boy, was it a disaster! lol I've never really posted a discussion before and thought today i'd take the plunge, well I couldn't have made more of a dick of myself if I really tried! So I'm trying to put that behind me, expunge the whole experience from my memory and do what the discussion board is actually for- starting a discussion. So, with that in mind, what rituals, if any, do you go through to 'get' into your writers groove? Do you just get on with it, or is there a specific routine you have to do to get you there?. Thoughts? And God help me if I've stuffed it up again, you may never hear another word out of me for the next fifty years!
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Thanks CJ, Sorry for doubling up, should I just delete the question?
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These boards have a very short memory. This post may be a duplicate, but I've seen a lot of new faces around here who probably missed it the first time and would be happy to chime in (which is to say, contribute to the discussion). For me, it's a long walk. Gets my brain in the zone. I've always imagined that if I had an EEG I'd be sending out a measurably different set of waves after a long walk. Welcome to the boards. :)
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Funny how ignorant I am of the British legal system. I thought it was a dozen pints of ale.
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Some days, I just write. But others, I'll put on some music and still just go. Depending on where I am if music is included.
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CJ, just like they taught us in school! God bless the US education system. We really are the best!
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I can't usually force it. Some days I'll write for hours on end and sometimes I can't look at the keyboard. Honestly though, I've found that the way I work best is to just relax. Watch tv for an hour or a day. Just do other stuff and then I'll get struck again, my subconscious will spew stuff forth and it's all because I've wound down and emptied my mind of the stresses and inhibitors.
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Go shopping or any social outing and absorb everything around you using a writers mind. Life itself is just like one big long movie for me anyway and I know I'm not the only writer and/or media person that has said that. I may be the biggest user of people in the history of users but most of it is for good, not the way one would think of someone being a user and done in a way unknowing and not harmful to others. In a way I guess you could say it is just observation but not any more observant or deviant than someone going to the movies. One problem I honestly have at times is not using any situation for future creation and just accepting a situation for what it is. Life is full of parallel's and that can be both a blessing and a curse to be in tune with that. As far as process social outing or just watching and listening to current media, a day or two of processing occasionally writing some brainstorming notes then I develop a title or centralized idea. I hardly ever work on fresh idea's because if I come back in a week or two and it isn't still interesting I just discard or file the idea away. I go back and forth and rehash idea's all the time so there is always some project I can work on. I probably have a hundred decent idea's and probably 10% or so of those at some efforted point of development in writing. Occasionally I polish some finished bodies of work as well. If I didn't have an upcoming hip surgery making me somewhat wishy washy I would probably explode out of media limbo. It sucks when an ailment causes reluctance.