[quote=@Buddha]
Though not exclusively linked to roleplay, I figured this was a good thing to discuss anyway. Writing to me has never been a task that I enjoy. As strange as that may sound, if I explain, perhaps you will agree.

So what do you do? How do you typically get in the mood and stay in the mood to write? How do you avoid getting bored, distracted?
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I don't do a lot of my serious writing on this forum. I don't participate in the writing contests because I'm here to mess around with my friends and have fun.

A lot of my actual good work is on a different RPG account. But I feel as though I should comment anyways. Ever since my friend died and I started my first book it's just kinda felt different. There's something really special about being alone under lamplight and just... going. I've been doing it for way too long to be doing it for fun or because I enjoy it though, at least when I'm writing seriously.

To me, writing in the zone is the best feeling ever.

If Stalin or Hitler threw me into one of those concentration camps or gulags, I'd carve words into wood with my nails. If they took my fingers, I'd use my teeth. If they pulled my teeth, I'd blink morse code to any passing bird or unfortunate soul who understands morse and has to spend time interpreting my shitty words. If they cut off my eyelids, I'd fart words into the troposphere. Ozone layer be damned by my poetic methane.

They'd probably have to kill me to stop me from writing.

It's basically how I breathe.

All I do is set aside some time. When I start on a subject, it sits in my head and ferments. I'd suggest writing about things that you have a lot of ideas for, and expanding upon them.