Ha!
God no.
I am merely high on being up too late.
Writing rituals/routines? Page 2
Quote: MoonlightingMatron @ February 9 2011, 3:16 AM GMT(I'm fairly new to these forums, so apologies if this has already been covered in another topic somewhere)
Does anyone else have 'writing rituals' that they *need* to do to get in the mood to write? For example, Stephen Fry can only write (at least, he did before) when he had a cigarette.
I think you misunderstood. What he said was he needed a fag in his mouth.
Quote: MoonlightingMatron @ February 9 2011, 3:16 AM GMTMy 'writing partner' has an entire cheeseboard with wine that he whips out. It's rather disturbing
I can't really type ideas so for me just my favourite pen n pad as that allows me to doodle freely. However I do need to have my polka dot blanky nearby, in case I get chilly and be in a half decent mood before I start.
I should really add to my routine.
My ritual is more like:
Get on train while praying there is a seat free.
Realise this is the only unbroken writing time in your day.
Get laptop going while reading the paper and eating toast.
Try to type with a fat man squashing me into the window.
Arrive in Paddington after producing two sentances (which I will probably delete next time I look at them.
Actually I would recommend not having very much time for writing. It helped get over a lot of my procrastination beacuse I don't have time for it anymore.
Having said that I want more time to write. But when I suggest full pay for half time hours to my boss...
1) Tell writing partner "You'll have it by Tuesday evening".
2) Spending Tuesday evening looking at 'tentacle porn' websites*
3) Dash something off on Wednesday morning and email it with a lame excuse.
*If you don't already know what 'tentacle porn' is, don't go Googling it. You'll only upset yourself.
Quote: Jinky @ February 21 2011, 1:51 PM GMT2) Spending Tuesday evening looking at 'tentacle porn' websites*
Arghh!
Quote: Jinky @ February 21 2011, 1:51 PM GMT*If you don't already know what 'tentacle porn' is, don't go Googling it. You'll only upset yourself.
Now you tell me! 
I usually start writing just after the postman's been. Have to pay all those fecking bills somehow. But then the routine is coffee, fag, stare at screen, coffee, fag, stare at screen, then repeat as necessary until something sparks. There's no such thing as writer's block. If you sit in front of your PC for long enough something will come.
(fnarr fnarr).
Quote: Lee Henman @ February 21 2011, 6:16 PM GMTIf you sit in front of your PC for long enough something will come.
*takes Henman's advice, locks self in study, powers-up Final Draft...*
*emerges exhausted yet triumphant, after 9 days without sleep, rest or food, having completed 6 episodes of sitcom...*
*about to have celebratory wank, when suddenly realises have accidentally written a broader, less nuanced 2nd series of Big Top... With Jason Manford-in-drag taking over the Amanda Holden role... A new character - "the pussy tamer" - written for Richard Blackwood... With the plot of every episode centering on the troupe going on holiday to the Costa Brava... And the entire script (apparently) written in a near-extinct Cornish dialect...*
*weeps inconsolably, considers taking own life...*
*prints off scripts and sends them by next-day delivery to BBC writersroom...*
*sits by phone for next six months, waiting for life-changing "it's not often we use the word 'genius' around here..." call*
