What are your Writuals? - 04/11/08 11:59 AM
I was reading this Interesting article on the BBC news website:
I thought it might be fun to see what FoLC 'Writuals' are. To recap the questions are:
Where are you?
What are you writing with?
What's the oddest object in front of you?
What are you listening to?
Is there anyone else in the room?
What time of day is it?
What do you look at when you're looking for inspiration?
What is guaranteed to remove your concentration?
As an aside on Writuals, I remember reading that when Stephen King wrote his novels as Richard Bachman he found he could only write using a particular brand of graphite pencil. When he wasn't writing as RB he didn't use them at all.
Strange how these little things get into our head, isn't it?
LabRat
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Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Roald Dahl did it in sheds at the bottom of the garden. Shaw's desk was famously on castors, so he could turn it throughout the day to get maximum light. Dahl even had one of his own hip bones sitting on the desk. Every writer will have their own ritual. Kerry McKittrick examines the modus operandi of some of Ireland's favourite writers and asks: What are your Writuals?
Where are you?
What are you writing with?
What's the oddest object in front of you?
What are you listening to?
Is there anyone else in the room?
What time of day is it?
What do you look at when you're looking for inspiration?
What is guaranteed to remove your concentration?
As an aside on Writuals, I remember reading that when Stephen King wrote his novels as Richard Bachman he found he could only write using a particular brand of graphite pencil. When he wasn't writing as RB he didn't use them at all.
Strange how these little things get into our head, isn't it?
LabRat