Your Writing Routine...

[Deleted member 29316]

We all have our writing routines, whenever we write stories. Mine would be:

• Turning off SocMed, and staying away from games and anime (if I'm currently watching one).
• Stare at the blank notebook page or computer screen for a few minutes...
• Write.
• Go to ScribbleHub and watch for any comments or see the stats...despair if nothing changes, or if someone drops or 1*/2* my work.
• Write again.
• Take a break after writing a scene. Mostly goes to reading comments, or writing a forum thread.
• Write some more.
• Go back to the previous scene I wrote and think whether it's in a 'good order'.
• Switch from writing to editing.
• Despair.
• Grab my brother and force him to read my vomit draft.
• Despair, part 2.
• Write again.
• Take a final break because my head and eyes are already aching from overuse.

So yeah, what's yours? Comedic answers are welcome.

 

[TeaNinja]

I haven’t wrote in a while. Mostly spending time doing school work or playing Fate/Grand Order. Gacha has consumed my soul. Though, if this was me before FGO, I usually wrote at night since that’s when I’m most tired and ideas just popped into my head.

 

[Alienix]

My writing way

1. Turn on laptop
2. Left the room
3. Go to a place with beautiful scenery
4. Admiring mountain, grass field, and river and imagining that I am im my fantasy world
5. Go back to house with fresh idea
6. Sit before the laptop
7. Open discord and sosmed
8. Sleep


The writing activity is somewhere between 6 and 7 (if I remember correctly)

 

[Deleted member 29316]

I haven’t wrote in a while. Mostly spending time doing school work or playing Fate/Grand Order. Gacha has consumed my soul. Though, if this was me before FGO, I usually wrote at night since that’s when I’m most tired and ideas just popped into my head.

FGO is eating the souls of those who are unfortunate to be smitten by its Ga-charm. As such, I uninstalled it from my phone before it's too late.

My writing way

1. Turn on laptop
2. Left the room
3. Go to a place with beautiful scenery
4. Admiring mountain, grass field, and river and imagining that I am im my fantasy world
5. Go back to house with fresh idea
6. Sit before the laptop
7. Open discord and sosmed
8. Sleep


The writing activity is somewhere between 6 and 7 (if I remember correctly)

You forgot to turn off your laptop.

 

[C.Sunlight]

I watch helplessly as my day is consumed by homework. Or I have a break, but something will always spring up, and I'm forced to solve the issue. I haven't read more than 1 chapter of something in a long, long time.

(Yes.

This has never not happened.)

By the time I end up writing, it's usually 10 or 11 pm. I then proceed to write until 2-3 am. I either wake up at 12 pm because it's a day where school is at home, or I wake up at 7:30 and somehow don't kill myself through the journey itself, whether it be via blunt trauma from the guard rails of the stairs or more... purposeful means of action.

Awfully cheery and peppy, eh? ಥ‿ಥ

(...oh well. It is what it is.)

 

[ConTroll]

For a productive writing session, I:

[1] Make tea or coffee or grab a glass of water
[2] Open my document file for my current story arc
[3] Go to YouTube and play my 'rain sounds' playlist
[4] Develop a rough outline of how I want the chapter to play-out
[5] Start writing the chapter without caring for errors
[6] Get another cup of tea, coffee, or water
[7] Edit
[8] Edit
[9] Edit

That would be my typical, productive 6 to 12 hour writing session. For shorter sessions, I break the sequence into multiple parts, but follow the same general order.

 

[NotaNuffian]

1. Type using my phone, while I am at work.
2. Go to docs, end up in porn section
3. End up writing more porn
4. Go back to what I wanted to write, write a sentence.
5. Quit and go back to the internet or mobile game.

 

[zelotwo02]

1. grab my phone
2. take a look at my novel stats
3. nothing changes = despair
4. lay down
5. write
6. post
7. take a look at stats again and refresh for an hour

too lazy so I don't edit my story

 

[Freesia.Cutepearl]

I've not published yet, but I've written 2.5 chapters with about 7.5k words of one story, and 3 chapters and about 6k words of another, both in Google Docs.
I had a couple week hiatus, but mostly I put on lo-fi[some favs are lo-fi for witches (only), --for vampires (only), --for ghosts (only) {both 1 and 2}, --for demons (only)], or coffee shop ambiance with rain and relaxing jazz, and write until I feel like a break, sometimes alternating between reading stories on scribblehub or manga/webnovels; and writing. Usually ending with falling asleep while reading.

 

[Moonpearl]

1. Find out if my friend wants to play at the same time, because I'll need to open the game files first or else the order will annoy me.
2. (Optional) Put on the music and/or playlist I picked out for the scene/story I'm writing.
3. Reread a couple of sentences and a few pieces of notes to remember what I was doing.
4. Write, probably while also writing a game with said friend (since they're basically turn-based collaborative writing games).
5. Occasionally check notifications if I'm bored, but not respond.
6. Try to ignore everyone suddenly being loud or taking too much interest in what I'm doing.
7. Try not to act out the expressions characters are making or mutter any dialogue, because that will increase the problem.
8. If stuck, play music to help with the mood.
9. Eventually get so stuck or mentally exhausted that I stop. Continue playing, though.
10. Back-up writing files and close them.

 

[Symphony]

• Turn on Laptop
• Open .word
• Gets distracted from Reddit.

 

[Monk_Origins]

Finish writing
Publish
Go upstairs and fire up the hookah
Try to smoke while reading other novels
Fail to do so due to overthinking the next chapter
Leave hookah half used and rush downstairs due to unease
Start writing the next chapter
Rinse and repeat...


Thing haven't been the same after hookah got banned due to virus. My writing speed fell from twice a day to twice a week.

 

[Eleven_M.A.]

• Get up in the morning.
• Grab a coffee.
• Procastrinate.
• Do More Important Stuff (TM)
• Procastrinate some more.
• Oh look, it's evening. I'm too tired to actually write.
• At least I don't have to procastrinate any more.

 

[Razmatazz]

1. Wake up, hate myself
2. Decide to punish myself for existing by working
3. Go running, workout with dumbbells
4. Meditate
5. Draw
6. Play guitar
7. Hate myself
8. Write, write, write, write
   • Continue hating myself while doing it
9. Upload, get positive feedback that I don't deserve
10. Sleep

1. Wake up, hate myself
2. Decide to punish myself for existing...

Life is good, friends