sorry!... only bathrooms [often, in the tub!] from that list... never had the opportunity to write aboard a sailboat, but i did get in 6 weeks' worth of great writing while asea between auckland nz and london, on a P&O container ship; 30 days' worth on a 'repositioning' cruise ship from galveston to piraeus; and bits on shorter stints aboard several other cruise liners in the caribbean, med, aegean... plus heading up the nile from cairo to karnak... spent a week hot-air ballooning in france's wine and chateau country, but was enjoying the view too much to write about it while aloft...
Yeah, me too. The net is the great time-suckage machine for me. Once I start surfing I find it hard to stop. But if I can just block it out and do something else, I'm fine.
I think they can be very stimulating places. Obviously it depends on the mood you're in. If you think it might be conductive to your creative juices then go, find a new one tucked away in a little side street, people watch, see the stories all around you channel peoples passions and motivations. Use all senses to fuel yourself. Then, if it doesn't work for you, you've tried something new and had a drink. You can't loose anything by giving it a chance, but you might gain a great deal.
I like writing in Cafes and Coffee shops! I've tried going to the library for quiet but that actually distracts me more than being in a place where there's a lot of people. I get restless and start thinking about doing other things. When I'm at the coffee shop though I have people to look at and delicious veggie pesto sandwiches to eat when I get hungry. The music is usually pretty good too at least at the ones I frequent. Can't stand Starbucks though. I tried that once and it was an awful experience. There were more than fifty people crammed into a tiny little building just sitting around waiting for their name and coffee to be called out. It's just not a good place to write at all. Starbucks just has such a plastic feel to it.
I'm most prolific when I'm at work.. and thinking about writing more than the job I'm supposed to be doing...
When I'm not tired. Though, sometimes when I'm really tired, I get stuff out since I'm too tired to think about other things.
Sadly I'm probably in the boat of when I'm too tired to care as well. I set aside writing time, can't focus, get worked up, get phone calls, ad get nothing done...but when it's 11:00 at night, it's quiet, and the pressure of having to write becomes a motivator...then I can write pages and pages of decent (but typo-riddled) stuff.
When it's bed time. I can sit all day and write 100 words but as soon as 11pm draws near, the brain kicks in, the muse starts dancing and the word count finds its way into four figures. I used to sit there until 2am but these days I have to stop, jot down my thoughts and go to bed.
I'm usually in bed by 9 on work nights otherwise I'm too tired. I am most prolific in the morning just after I wake up at 5am, another reason why I go to bed at 9.
When I sit down to write and start writing I can usually keep the momentum going. The inertia of not writing is tough to get over, but I definitely don't have any set times or moods to write. I'd find that way too limiting.
I'm in the 'being way too tired to care' boat, combined with a healthy dose of having the house to myself. I don't know why, but even just knowing that someone else is around is enough to interrupt my brainspace. Lucky for me, my fiance works nights, so usually my exhaustion coincides with having an empty house!
...the world has changed for the better. I'm not prolific. I'm a procrastinator and I put off writing as long as I physically can with snacks, TV, the internet, my cats, more TV, more snacks, walks, sleep, daydreaming and sometimes muttering obscenities at my invisible friend called Hank. Writing for me is a chore. It's the boring bit that goes with creating. I'm on year number 8 and draft 153 of my 60k word book. But I love creating, so...
@Selbbin I'm so glad to hear that I'm not the only one muttering to invisible people as I try to force myself to write.
