Any strange writing habits?

i am less cohesive on paper but i find that my incohesive jumbled mess has quite a bit of sustance and emotion for me to later analyze. in other words i don't plan before it hits the paper. it is raw and i guess uncensored by what i feel i should be writing. no limits. a typwriter (old, manual) though it can be inconvenient finding ink ribbons, is one of my favorite mediums. it is the balance between a computer and a notepad. the thoughts stick together but the emotion behind those thoughts are uncensored. computers dry out my writing and i begin to overthink things losing both the substance and fluidity. think of it this way-
mud- writing on paper
soil- writing on a typewriter
sand- wrting on a computer

 

I chew on my pen, smoke, or lay on my tummy...
also I write it on my legs when paper isnt easy to find, or on my homework...

 

going back to music, I find that I like to listen to music while writing, but when reading back my work even if its only a paragrath, I have to turn it off, because its too distracting, I could never listen to music and read ethier
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I listen to music doing a lot of things. It does help.

 

I listen special music to get in contact, it has to be energy full and inspirering, and dancing..
after, i cna write or do anything else.
I go from one mood to a super energy level in 10 - 20 minutes. No matter how I feel previously or how much i had sleep or not sleep for days, i just make it hppen, and it is truely greate,a s i also feel extremely happy.
Its a transe thing.
Music is special, it is so supreeme good.
It can do so many magical things to you and make things happen, but you have to tune in, to elevate it, to found the place in the phrase which is.. closest connected.

Alright, no more.

 

As for what habit helps me write.. none, I just get going, it comes by itself like a storm or a river or a strong wind, sometimes like a sweet brise, or like a deep void, but it is always there. i stop writing when i got my fingers bleeding, since it hurt when i do, so i cant write any more. I still do, but it is very painfull.

 

I have a habit to write while I'm intoxicated, and then revise while sober, then rewrite while I am stoned, and carry on the cycle such and so forth. I enjoy listening to music to put me into the mood of the particular piece that im working on, and try and visualize as vividly as possible, to be in the world that Im talking about.

 

does your writing ever get completely finished?
S

 

i can't start writing anything untill it has a title.

 

When the music is your special friend,
Dance on fire as it intends.
Music is your only friend.
Until the end.
---- Morrison

 

i find it hard to write sober. ideas tear through my mind when im high or walking up hills, through forests, along rivers. places with no modernisation. and its even better when im next to a quiet, peaceful river, smokin herb. relaxes me to the max and gives me gr8 time to think. sadly i always forget to bring a notepad grrr

 

I seem to write well after I have drank coffee, it opens up my mind. Also I find that late at night and when I am under extrem pressure like submitting for a deadline works. Its all about tapping into the creative process within, which needs to be in a heightened emotional state!

 

I don't think I have any really weird writing habits. I mean, you guys all write your first drafts in virgin's blood right?

 

haha

 

haha ready to write, bin sittin up drinkin and smokin herb feelin good to write! and plenty of shots to keep me goin =D

 

I usually listen to The Doors or Miles Davis. And smoking. Smoking helps.

 

I don't really have any. I will write with anything close to hand when the mood takes me: pencil, pen, crayon, marker, school computer, anything..............

But something i've noticed lately is that when I read back over my work, the only 'good stuff' is all written in black ink. Strange.

I'm off down the shops to buy a box of nice black pens now.

Peace,
Aidan

 

I like to listen to music too. Almost any kind. I just sit in my bedroom with the door closed, music playing, with my bird on my knee. Or I even sit on the computer desk so that if I need to spell, define, or find an image to help me with descriptions its right there. I also find sitting outside (especially at night) helps the creative flow

 

Yes, music must be playing! And no one can talk to me or else I can't write anymore. And they can't look until it's finished or for some reason I'll never finish it.

 

i don't write often enough to have any habbits, and that's pretty strainge.

mostly because i need to be completely alone, in an environment without audible input that has verbal content, for rather a good long time. which is something i just don't get the chance to have happening often enough.

i'm usually naked too, but that's just happenstance of being comfortable at home in the middle of the night.

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