My sister used to put strawberry jam on canned kippers! The look was bad enough. I never got around to tasting it. But she's not a writer. Maybe that explains something ...dunno what.
Well since crystals are cooled over a long period of time, it would depend on how thick the liquid is that is cooling. Obviously the thicker the better so ass not to fill your mouth, nose, and ears (I think the other ones would be fine regardless of the liquid, unless it were to be a corrosive one. Then you might have much more pressing things to worry about than a bit of liquid trying to weasel it's way into your bum). Though if you are speaking of the more Fantasy based magic crystallization method, then it wouldn't matter too much, cause it should be instantaneous, and there would be no worry of the material really invading your orifices beyond a little bit. And only in such a fantastic way provided it kept you in the same state as cryo stasis, then that would just suck. In reality you would probably suffocate or drown depending on which method were to be used. Though I am sure it will fascinate the lucky person who unearths you in a few thousand years or so.
I like dipping regular Fritos in orange juice, and it is magical. Though I wouldn't mix them up the way you make cereal cause that would just be silly.
I take the corn chip-icules in a bowl and pour salsa over it. Perfect breakfast. I'll have to update my urban survival cookbook.
I talk out loud to myself, and I do find it helpful. It can either be just getting stuff out of my brain, or it can help me problem solve. Both help me.
i do the same, however my mother always thinks it's me being disrespectful in the next room when I'm actually sorting out an argument between characters.
I write best when I listen to music with lyrics, the louder the better. If other people are around I use headphones. On occassion I leave my writing-room for one reason or another and then there's the weird smile on my face and I stare into my story, eh, distance, and I encounter people in real life and look through them. If they talk to me, sometimes my answers don't make sense because I'm too deep in story-space.
If I have problems to concentrate to writing, I might jump to research. Often it is something that might be useful in something else and not in the current project.
I have music fitting with the thing I write. When I research I want to have short and epic music. When I write I wanna have relaxing music that takes at least 1 /2 hours. To come up with some ideas I listen to some emotional music. Ye... is that weird?
Actually, not weird at all. I like to think of it as a soundtrack. I discovered this back in my university days. I found I could read dry textbooks (history ...the kind that's just facts facts facts) and it would come to life if I played fairly upbeat classical music. It was like the soundtrack to a movie. I don't write to music (unless I'm trying to drown out some distraction) but I love researching to music. The only thing is, it can't have any lyrics or too many ups and downs in it. That's why chamber music works fine for me, and symphonies don't. However, when I'm doing artwork, I love any kind of 'favourite' music. I remember when I was younger I used to put Beatle records on, then work on drawings and paintings. Drawing and painting engages a different part of the brain, I reckon, from writing. It's non-verbal, so lyrics, etc, don't interfere.
I do that all the time. Music helps to get inspiration for scenes and imagining the scene like a movie.
This reminded me of Joan Wilder of Romancing the Stone... I guess it must be common since the mid XXth century.
I go to sleep every night thinking about the movies I've seen or books I've read, and then put myself in one of the character's shoes. What would I have done? Was it the same as the story or different? How could I have made it better? By the time I wake up, I usually remember (at least for a short time) some story (not necessarily the same one I fell to sleep thinking about) I want to write down before I forget. And to be honest I forget a lot of them. I really need to keep a dream book by my bed.
I have a particularly nasty writerly habit, one I was afflicted with even before I first set pen to paper: I notice plot holes in books, movies, and TV shows, and obsess over filling them. I mean, like for hours. I wonder what life would've been like for me if there'd been fan fiction in the 1980s. I probably would've been writing it. This tendency isn't so bad now that I have my own writing to do, but it sure is a time killer.
Just curious. Does this habit translate into spotting plot holes in your own writing? It would certainly help you get to grips with filling any you do find, but does it make it easy to spot them in your own work? I'm a plothole spotter as well, and I get really nervous when I think I've found one in my own story. So far no beta has discovered a plot hole that I missed, so I guess I'm doing the job. But it still makes me nervous.
So glad I'm not the only one who's particular about music while writing! In my free time I like to make playlists that fit stories/characters, so I can listen to something with the right vibes while I'm working. My spotify library is all over the dang place.
Probably. But with my own stuff it takes longer for me to notice. I had a couple of betas flag scenes where my protags acted out of character (wrote them that way because I needed them to do what they did for plot reasons). Not sure those qualify as plot holes, but I dealt with them.
