yesterday i was sitting at the computer, music blaring (music of choice: Tenacious D), cricket on the T.V, my brother and his friend wrestling on the floor near my feet, my cat Salem meowing for attention, my baby sister crying from mum's room, my cousins fighting over their new christmas presents, and i wrote an entire chapter to my story, easy as.

and yet, last week i wrote pages and pages of whatever came to mind in the middle of the night with only the sound of my typing to be heard. and when i read over what i had written it wasn't that bad.

so what conditions do you find you thrive in? or what mood? what music? do you write epic love stories to heavy metal and lots of swearing? do you write steamy sex scenes while your parents are in the same room? great action sequences in math?

feel free to share...

But also on the train, the rhythmic movement is really conduicive to rambling trains of thought. I can't write when forced to though but I always manage to finish my stories or poetry before whatever deadline I have thank God.

you know, that does make sense, and i would try it except i get really bad motion sickness, so i would most likely throw up all over anything i write :(

I second that.

Though when the inspiration comes in a totally different thing. I have a tendency at thinking up some vital plot twists and such when I am in my bedroom trying to sleep. Needless to say, I often have to take a minute and scribble the important stuff on my post-it notes :P

Otherwise all writing is done on the comp.

I'm constanly listening to music as I write, but I try to make sure the music I'm listening to clashes with the mood of the scene I'm writing. I might listen to Soilwork and Killswitch Engage when writing dialogue, or Pink Floyd or A Perfect Circle when I'm writing a scene of screaming, gunpowder driven carnage. I just try to mix things up. Dunno why...