So that's where I've been going wrong

[louiselux]

Spotted in this entertaining article about a Mills & Boon writing course: advice on how to write a romance novel:

'Take a single red rose, place in a vase on your desk. Smell it. Light aromatic candles. Anoint your body with your favourite oil. Put on a silk negligee and rub your hands up and down your body. Pour a glass of chilled white wine. Close your eyes and imagine Tom Selleck is making love to you. Start writing.'

Fan version: Take over the computer, so no one else can use it for hours. Smell yourself. Wish you had aromatic candles. Anoint your body with some lukewarm coffee. Put on a pair of baggy old tracksuit bottoms and rub your hands up and down your keyboard. Pore over livejournal until it's clear no one's updating. Close your eyes and imagine Severus Snape is making love to Tom Selleck only joking whoever you damn well please. Start writing.'

Comments

[yay4pikas.livejournal.com]

I don't like white wine. Mead somehow conjures up images of carousing Anglo-Saxon warriors who don't bathe, and rum conjures up images of pirates who also don't bathe. Also, red roses are very rarely scented, and ew, Tom Selleck?

All I need to do to get in a writing mood is to stay up until 3 am the day before I have a massive paper due! That always makes me want to write fiction (of course, I have to write the paper instead).

Or airplanes, but I'm paranoid about people reading over my shoulder, so I have to type in 8pt Verdana, which I can't read.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

All I need to do to get in a writing mood is to stay up until 3 am the day before I have a massive paper due!

Ahahaha! Exactly, yes, that works for me too. Papers to write, housework to do, job to go to...