/lit/ - Literature

Depends. I have lots of methods. Used to be I'd just sit down on my computer and type.

Now I plan quite intensively. I'm writing notes for a novel right now on one of those white full paged lined notepads. I've filled up about forty pages of character analysis in the past four days.

I live in a heavily wooded area in Canada, and have a large yard, full of trees and wildlife. I like to sit outside in a comfortable chair, with my pipe. Usually I fill it with Early Morning Pipe, or some Plumcake pipe tobacco, and scribble out my notes. I find it very relaxing, and continually smoke as I write. It's probably going to wreck my pipe smoking it so much, but it helps me think.

Often times I'll leave the radio on, and open a window so I can hear it while I'm outside, I'll tune it to CBC2 which plays Classical music throughout the afternoon, and just work all day.

I'm also a journalist, so when I'm not working on my short stories, and my novels, I'm also tracking down leads on stories, making phone calls, writing notes, and eventually stories. This work I do inside on my computer, or at the office of my newspaper at which I am employed.

When I really want to focus because I feel the internet is too distracting, I'll go over to my old Royal Quite De Luxe typewriter that I've had since 1969 and punch out whatever I need to be working on. It gets the job done, and it's good if you don't mind the typos.

Writing is easy. You just have to actually get to it. I don't think. That comes later. I write the first thing that comes into my head, and if I hate it, I'll cut it out. I cut out the shit, and keep the good stuff, until I have good clean prose, or copy.

Let's discuss this film.