/lit/ - Literature

>>13305407
>8 tabs open on laptop
>4 books open nearby
>3 phones all running towards the same goal
>glasses off because I can't read / write with them on
>3:58 AM as I'm typing this, on a relaxing summer Saturday night
>drinking tree sap
What are your rituals for writing? I'm notoriously slow in the entire process, I do like to consult dictionaries and translators (some words work better in other languages, but I need an equivalent of them in my own language) as well as re-reading several books at once.
What are the phones for? Well I store everything I write in a cloud storage. One phone is for writing, the two other phones are for editing different sections simultaneously.
And what is that tree sap I'm drinking? It's actually birch sap. Look it up.

>>13257104
I've learned that all you really need to write a book is something you're really enthusiastic to talk about. You don't need to nail down a genre, characters, setting, world building, theme. Nothing matters except the one subject you're really interested about.
Research says that, on average, we speak between 7.000 and 20.000 words a day. If you're really enthusiastic about something and you can talk a day, a single day, about it, you already have anywhere between 7000 and 20.000 words of your book.
And considering that at 120k words you already have a PRETTY good sized book on your hands, well it really puts things into perspective don't it?