It is ridiculous to make two different posts for the different memes I'm answering this week and next. I shall just put them in one post.
21 days meme:
9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?
I don't really know. I guess![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
inventrix and pippin might get along. Either that or they would cause the world to explode.
Writing meme:
How often do you write? Do you have any writing rituals? Say, certain locations, beverages, background music, times of day, target word counts, etc.?
I try to write every day. Operative word being "try." Out of the last week, according to my goal tracker, I've written five days out of seven. I think that's better than I've been doing lately.
I definitely don't have any writing rituals; sometimes I think that if I got some rituals, or at least routines, I'd be able to write more consistently, but then I worry that if I started to rely on rituals, I wouldn't be able to write at other times, which would be problematic when traveling (not that I write much when traveling anyway). I generally write either at my desk in my room or at the kitchen table, neither of which are particularly good environments for sitting for long periods of time, but it's what I have. I usually like to have music on, and sometimes I feel like I can't concentrate unless it's instrumental, whereas other times I write happily with the TV on. Sometimes in the shower (which I do at night) I get ideas, and then I scribble it down in my journal because I don't want to turn my computer back on right before bed.
I think I write better in the evening. It's hard to say. I usually don't feel totally awake in the morning and in the afternoon I'm distracted, but then in the evening I'm tired. I used to think I wrote better in the mornings, though. Maybe it's just progressing through the day.
I give myself a point on the aforementioned goal tracker every time I hit 500 words. I don't have a consistent wordcount goal, though 1000 words a day would be great; I work better with deadlines, like NaNoWriMo, when I have a specific wordcount I have to reach every day to stay on track. In that case I usually exceed it. (You may notice, if you've looked at my profile, that I've won NaNo six times. I have only participated six times. In 2007, I started over almost a week in and didn't count the words from my original attempt; in 2009, I didn't decide to start until almost a week in and still won; in 2010, I made my goal 80k and achieved it. Writing deadlines are my bitch.)
21 days meme:
9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?
I don't really know. I guess
inventrix and pippin might get along. Either that or they would cause the world to explode.Writing meme:
How often do you write? Do you have any writing rituals? Say, certain locations, beverages, background music, times of day, target word counts, etc.?
I try to write every day. Operative word being "try." Out of the last week, according to my goal tracker, I've written five days out of seven. I think that's better than I've been doing lately.
I definitely don't have any writing rituals; sometimes I think that if I got some rituals, or at least routines, I'd be able to write more consistently, but then I worry that if I started to rely on rituals, I wouldn't be able to write at other times, which would be problematic when traveling (not that I write much when traveling anyway). I generally write either at my desk in my room or at the kitchen table, neither of which are particularly good environments for sitting for long periods of time, but it's what I have. I usually like to have music on, and sometimes I feel like I can't concentrate unless it's instrumental, whereas other times I write happily with the TV on. Sometimes in the shower (which I do at night) I get ideas, and then I scribble it down in my journal because I don't want to turn my computer back on right before bed.
I think I write better in the evening. It's hard to say. I usually don't feel totally awake in the morning and in the afternoon I'm distracted, but then in the evening I'm tired. I used to think I wrote better in the mornings, though. Maybe it's just progressing through the day.
I give myself a point on the aforementioned goal tracker every time I hit 500 words. I don't have a consistent wordcount goal, though 1000 words a day would be great; I work better with deadlines, like NaNoWriMo, when I have a specific wordcount I have to reach every day to stay on track. In that case I usually exceed it. (You may notice, if you've looked at my profile, that I've won NaNo six times. I have only participated six times. In 2007, I started over almost a week in and didn't count the words from my original attempt; in 2009, I didn't decide to start until almost a week in and still won; in 2010, I made my goal 80k and achieved it. Writing deadlines are my bitch.)