[How do you get yourself started?] A little caffeine usually works for me, or (embarrassing to admit) bad pop music from my adolescence (early 90s).
[Do you have a favorite time of day to write? Does this help keep your writing sessions more regular?] Mornings work best for me, although since I've been teaching, I've found that in the evenings, writing is an excellent way to put off grading papers.
[Do you write everyday?] Mainly on the weekends. I need to know that I've got a long stretch of uninterrupted time ahead of me.
[How long are your typical writing sessions?] a few hours.
[Do you have a specific goal like a time limit, a page or word count when you sit down to write?] I usually try to get through one scene, but this varies.
[Do you write in order or can you bounce around in the story?] I have to write the story in order, otherwise things tend not to fit together when I'm finished -- I make outlines, though, and tinker with them constantly.
[Do you stick with one project or do you have several projects going at once?] I do one at a time -- usually I get an idea, and it takes over my brain for a few years, and the result is a novel.
[Does your writing routine or process change from project to project?] It hasn't, so far -- but it may change over time.
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Date: 2009-03-01 11:07 pm (UTC)[Do you have a favorite time of day to write? Does this help keep your writing sessions more regular?] Mornings work best for me, although since I've been teaching, I've found that in the evenings, writing is an excellent way to put off grading papers.
[Do you write everyday?] Mainly on the weekends. I need to know that I've got a long stretch of uninterrupted time ahead of me.
[How long are your typical writing sessions?] a few hours.
[Do you have a specific goal like a time limit, a page or word count when you sit down to write?] I usually try to get through one scene, but this varies.
[Do you write in order or can you bounce around in the story?] I have to write the story in order, otherwise things tend not to fit together when I'm finished -- I make outlines, though, and tinker with them constantly.
[Do you stick with one project or do you have several projects going at once?] I do one at a time -- usually I get an idea, and it takes over my brain for a few years, and the result is a novel.
[Does your writing routine or process change from project to project?] It hasn't, so far -- but it may change over time.