A question for my fellow writers.

[gridlore]

As I take a break from the tedious task of converting Classic Traveller UWPs to GURPS Traveller info strings for the project I'm working on, this occurred to me.

I can't write without noise. I need music, the TV, something around me or I can't write a word. I also need munchies and a Coke.

So how do you other writers work? What environment do you require?

Comments

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

Music is good, but not if it has words; I'll just end up singing along instead of writing. So I made an iTunes playlist called "Instrumentality", into which I drop all the instrumental mp3s in my library.

Google and other search engines are rapidly becoming indispensable writing tools for me. For instance: while working on the last paragraph of a story, I suddenly needed to know what areas of the brain were the activation centers of romantic love. Within seconds I'd Googled up a a PDF of a research paper on just that topic (www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk/pdf/NeuralBasisOfLove.pdf).