The photo is not actually my writing space. Mine consists of only a single monitor and a keyboard and none of the other stuff but it is much too cluttered and I don’t want you to see how messy it is. But I chose the pic above because it is pretty much the standard setup and I’m using AI so I’m just taking the first picture that’s more or less what I want. Anyway, going back to the topic, I’m not a very ritualistic person, rather I tend towards practical and utilitarian so I don’t have a dedicated writing space per se (and besides Wild Writing, I don’t really write by hand anymore). Instead, this is basically a space where I write, work and play games with my PC.
Now, while I don’t have any writing rituals, I do have a writing routine. It has been evolving but the basic principle is that I pick 5 or 6 days a week to work on my WIP and a set number of hours to devote to writing&related each day. By writing & related, I mean everything that feeds into my writing. Half of it is reading which is split between English/Kindle books nowadays which is purely leisure and what I call emotional reading- re-reading a specific old or new online novel in Chinese and recording down bits where I remember an emotional reaction to. The other half is not all directly related to the WIP but rather more exercises to hone my writer’s craft overall. RIght now, I only have one WIP writing session per writing day (I did have a spell of two writing sessions per writing day but that’s a few years ago now) and I’ve tweaked things from meeting a given word count to achievement based. Part of it is summer lethargy and procrastination and part of it is that there are just a lot of scenes where I feel ‘stuck’ constantly that I encounter everywhere for this project.
That’s the state of things right now with me. Feel free to leave me comments to let me know what you think.
Moonlake's Fiction Space 