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Today’s Topic: Writing Rituals
I found a useful article at the BBC website about the writing rituals of several Irish authors. It made me curious about how each of you prepare to write or make art. Using these questions as a model, tell us a thing or two about your “rituals.” To get you started, I’ve borrowed a couple of questions/directives from the article and stuck in a couple of my own:
Describe your writing or art-making space.
Describe your writing implement, device, equipment, or tools you use to create.
What is the oddest object in your creative space?
Do you listen to anything while you create? If so, what?
Do you engage in any interesting habits, exercises, warm-ups or rituals before you settle down to create?
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April 17, 2008 at 2:34 pm
woodnymph
Describe your writing or art-making space.
Answer: I have converted a shed 10′X 12″ into a study. It is finished on the insiide, insulated, air conditioned for summer and heated in the winter. My computers, PC and laptop with printers and other accessories on one wall and bookcases on the back wall. I call my space The Hobbit’s Hut.
Describe your writing implement, device, equipment, or tools you use to create.
Answer: I write mostly on my PC. For my photography and painting I use Photoshop Elements and Corel Painter X. I save everything to an external hard drive.
What is the oddest object in your creative space?
Answer: Me.
Do you listen to anything while you create? If so, what?
Answer: Classical music. I especially like Motzart for when I’m working on a project..
Do you engage in any interesting habits, exercises, warm-ups or rituals before you settle down to create?
Answer: After a shower and a light breakfast I’m ready to go. I like to sit down at the computer with a Starbuck’s Vanilla Frappuccino.
Vi
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April 17, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Lori
LOL! Oddest object…….. Vi, you slay me.
April 17, 2008 at 6:30 pm
kvwordsmith
What is the oddest object in your creative space?
Answer: Me.
GREAT ANSWER! Kerry
April 17, 2008 at 10:21 pm
espirit07
Vi — ahhhh, your Hobbit Hut and rituals are very picturesque. I’d love joining you with that Vanilla Frappucino. Like Lori and Kerry, love that you see yourself as the oddest object.
April 20, 2008 at 12:28 am
Heather Blakey
The oddest object in my writing space is an old rowing boat that has been effectively turned in to a cabinet. It is also one of my favorite objects.
This is a wonderful prompt Lori and when I come home after visiting my mother’s I will have a go at putting something on the Tavern. Will I be myself, Enchanteur, Ebony Wilder or Sibyl Riversleigh. Perhaps I better sharpen up my pencils again.