Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol’ pen and paper?
I am most comfortable writing at home, I think. Late at night for sure, and I am flexible with computers or pen and paper. I like to have pen and paper on hand all the time to jot down ideas, quotes, or dialogue or whatever comes to me, but I like my computer for the hardcore writing. It’s easier to edit, cut or copy and paste, and find/replace on a computer. I have a laptop, but back in the day, I just used a desktop. And before then, it was pen and paper!
In fact, I still have somewhere what I call Ronni’s Big Ass Notebook, which has is a loose-leaf binder with a very long unfinished novel that I wrote during college. During high school and junior high, I wrote in notebooks, or stapled loose-leaf papers together.
In high school, the school bookstore had these notebooks that were perfect. I can’t remember the cost; they were cheap, though. They were 100 pages exactly. Not too thin, not too thick. I bought them like crazy, and filled them up with stories and stories. I had comments sections at the back, and people would write what they thought of my work.
Funnily, I am finding it easier to get raw ideas and things down in notebooks again. Give me a Sharpie pen, and I’m good to go. So I’ll stick with that method for now.
