Reply #9: Candles [View All]

Before I start, there are some essential "mood setters" I have, and they change from project to project.

When I used my laptop, it had to be just so on my lap, and I had to be just so on the couch, and a certain CD had to be playing. I could write in no other room, from no other seat, with no other music.

Now, in a new house and working on a new project, the process is this:
I must be at the desk. I can't transfer the stuff to work on any other computer in any other room. This is my 'spot.'

Must start by a certain time in the morning or the whole writing day, pretty much, is shot.

1. Light incense
2. Light two desk candles
3. Play musicmatch, either a combo of Enya, Kim Ritchie, and Joni Mitchell, or a combo of Damien Rice, Cat Stevens, and Van Morrison.

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