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Creative Arts and Media => Creative Writing => Topic started by: StalBlue on November 04, 2010, 03:04:49 AM

Title: Getting in the zone
Post by: StalBlue on November 04, 2010, 03:04:49 AM
For my current work I wait till late at night, turn on some jazz and grab my editor to bounce ideas off of. I find the light and music helps me visualize. I am a very visual person (hell, I have a photographic memory) so this helps a lot. What do you do to get in the zone?
Title: Re: Getting in the zone
Post by: Ares the Ram on November 04, 2010, 03:08:21 AM
I daydream about scenarios that Id like to be apart of. I play out the scenario how I like it, then write it down.
Title: Re: Getting in the zone
Post by: StalBlue on November 04, 2010, 04:13:21 AM
Don't find you have a special place or setting or mood or whatever that helps you write?
Title: Re: Getting in the zone
Post by: Ares the Ram on November 04, 2010, 04:16:07 AM
absolute quiet helps me write. no noise means my brain can work without distraction. I also write better when I'm depressed.
Title: Re: Getting in the zone
Post by: StalBlue on November 04, 2010, 04:35:00 AM
Oh, see. That's interesting. I get total writer's block when I get depressed, but then I'm a rather cheerful person normally so when I get depressed I get legitimately depressed. Like don't want to get out of bed for the rest of my life depressed lol. I know that's not funny. There are a lot of people who battle serious depression and my occasional bout with it doesn't give me nearly enough credibility to make a laugh at it, but whatever. Point is, depression gives me serious writer's block xD