Kikster

I just let it be... most of the times I am in writing mode anyways, so I don't really have to do anything. if I'm not listening to music and taking a nice relaxing bath helps a bunch.

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Xeen

It comes when it comes... often as a scream in the night. Bwa ha ha.

Really though, I can't force it. I can ask for something inspirational or motivating to poke it's stupid little head into view, but that doesn't mean it'll do so.

A lot of the time it'll come at very inconvenient times.

If I'm really desperate to write (or draw), I'll look at other people's stuff... like random poetry websites. I get inspired by other people's crappy writings or drawings and that motivates me to write.

I also get motivated to write by other people's good stuff, too.

But I've got such a different style from anybody else's that I've seen that I can't just write something 'better'. I write just to be writing, in hopes that the finished product doesn't make me feel nauseated like the piece of crap that inspired me to write in the first place.

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Destany

This is exactly what I do too. I suppose it's a bit of confidence booster, and it reminds me that I'm as good as other authors who've been published.

This is exactly the oposite for me. Call it Authors cryptonite, maybe I'm a pesimist, but when I start thinking like that, I start having doubts. So I go and read a couple pages of a book and viola! Instant fix

Ruben

I write the best, or lets say, the most when I push myself.

I have some real trouble fixing myself to one thing and that needs to happen when I want to write. Things like a nice bath and such feel good but don't help me in my writing and just leave me with less time.

I have it all stored in my brain but I hate to write since it takes so long. Don't get me wrong, I type fast, very fast. But still, to put on screen how I feel when something happens and in what way that something happens... That takes ages for me.

Zinta

I write at work... really.. I have a job.. that is basically sitting and monitoring computers. Nothing happens.. I do nothing. I sit and write, or read, or listen to talk radio over the internet.

I have read about 10 books in the last month. (I'm a sci-fi nut)

I have written about 6 short stories... and sent 3 of them off to magazines.

I've never been published yet.. but someday.. someone is going to actually like my work.. maybe.. err.. I hope.

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a15haddad

My tale intercutting second graders who want to explore the unknown portions of their world and the power struggle between Father Time and Mother Intelligence that eventually leads to the Apocalypse brought upon by Mother Intelligence's meddling of the main second-grader's head which draws him to try to save his best friend, which then sets the Apocalypse and forces the Master to destroy all of his eight Parents, including Father Time, who had been his favorite for establishing the network of Time to fit in with the seven elements, was published in a compilation book of the 50 best short stories by teenage writers living in Michigan. I was the only person under 16 in that book... I am 13. That was the only time I have been published.

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tetsuda

I don't know if anything gets me in a writing "mood". I usually just have to start writing and it comes. It's like a wall I have to break through by writing before the words come easier. Somedays the wall is thicker than others, and somedays there is no wall. Hoohaha.

Hodge

I generally dim the lights, break open a bottle of fine champagne, and slip into something a little more comfortable. Maybe turn on some music—maybe some down-tempo R&B or Enigma.

Then I make sure to tell my word processor that her fonts are extremely lovely tonight and that her bold text is extremely voluptuous. And I always make some comment about how intuitive her interface is or how varied her features are. I tell her she's better than that slut MS Word—she always digs that.

Then I gently scroll down the page, pausing every so often to take in all the sweet text and—wait, what's this? A PAGE BREAK?! You filthy whore! That's it—I'm going back to Clarisworks.

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Keridwen

I just read over work that I have written before - whether it be on the computer or by hand.

Thinking about the meaning of life also works!!! Hehehe.

My best ideas come really late at night for some whacked reason...or maybe they just seem good because I'm so damn tired!!

Red Ghost

I usually draw the scene in my head that I want to write about, and then let it fester for a bit, going over it in my head as I work on finishing the picture. I find that my best work comes from that.

Yuppers, it's music for me as well, but it has to be a mood appropriate piece though, like metallica for a fight scene, or the sound track from LotR for something adventurous.

And actually this just started and it's pretty sweet, one of my friends is a composer, and I'll show him a drawing and he'll compose a song for that drawing. I'll then listen to his music as I write. A great symbiotic creative relationship.

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stereomuse

i usualy just start to write, then it flips on.

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Xeen

This works for me too. I do my best drawing and writing after staying up all night and I really REALLY need to go to bed. I think not sleepin for artists works like booze given to a barely 18 year old going for her first porno shoot... it gets us all relaxed (at least mentally) and we can more easily draw.

I dunno, just a thought.

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