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Throughy

Wondering, what person the current story is in (1st or 3rd, etc)

Where the others in the same person?

RomanticRose

I tend to write best in coffee shops, waffle house, Denny's, IHOP. Having the activity around me is sort of like white noise.

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Mr Sci Fi

I usually have a lot going on in my house while I'm writing. Be it a family member watching TV or trying to have a conversation with me. Once I'm in my own little world, I don't even care. I find music helps quite a bit.

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Erik Buchanan

Read "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf.

She and Stephen King both prefer the same thing: A room with a door you can close. I agree with them. I don't need to hide from the whole world, but I do need it to leave me alone while I work.

Unlike RomanticRose, I've never managed well in coffee shops.

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Mr Sci Fi

Every time I try to write in coffee shops people always end up staring at me. I guess they're mystified, whispering things to each other like, "Oh, is that a writer?"

I stopped because I felt bad getting people's hopes up.

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Malone

I live in a shack in the woods. I can't write around other people. When I shared a house with others, I stayed up all night and slept all day just so I wouldn't have to be around other people and outside influences. Now that I have this board to get on when I walk to the library to type my stuff onto the PC is enough of a distraction.

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Loulou

Unfortunately in the real world we can't always 'shut out' the sounds that distract us. Children, building work, busy towns, telephones... I guess we have to learn to write in spite of these things. I do concentrate better when the house is empty, however. The idea of being in peaceful woods or mountains is wonderful. But it's not going to happen. And so I adapt. Sometimes my better pieces are born of chaos, written in an afternoon when I speak on the phone ten times, listen to my daughter ramble on about Megatron or I invent a cure for the common cold.

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Non Serviam

I have to have complete silence when I write. I do most of my writing on my laptop after midnight when everyone in the house is in bed.

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