When it comes to the best environment for writing, I personally have no magic formula. I’m still on the hunt for that elusive set of conditions that’ll cause my mind to flow with ideas and my hand to start laying down ink at light speed. To those of you who have found your magic formula, I truly envy you. To all others like me who haven’t, I wish you all the best of luck as I’m sure you all know how fickle of a beast writer’s block is. That being said, I’m a truly sporadic writer, one who writes only in bursts and only when he’s inspired by both some of the strangest and most commonplace moments. Furthermore, it’s incredibly unpredictable when those moments are going to strike. I could be riding the London Underground and suddenly have the urge to jot down potential hooks or lying down on my futon when great ways to develop my conclusion pop into my head. But I’m not saying that there’s no method to this madness of mine, there are some things that generally help. Jake Shimabukuro’s sweet ukulele playing has some way of jolting my brain to find new ideas. Additionally, I always find that I write better when I pen down potential jigsaw pieces of an essay that I’ll later reshape, revise, and fit together into a finished product than if I start from the beginning and proceed in a straight line. So in my quest to find my magic formula, perhaps I’ve found two ingredients in ukulele music and the jigsaw method. But until I find the remaining parts, I have little to no idea when my next writing fix will come. I look forward to it.
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