But after our last natural disaster, the flood, we've been enjoying some lovely fall weather. It's been tough to sit down at the old writing desk and get to work when I want to be outside and soak in the sunshine. I do love the outdoors but for the sake of my writing, I'm almost looking forward to the gloom of winter.
I don't mind spending hours at the keyboard when it's cold out and the wind is howling around the corners of our country home. Give me a hot cappuccino and a fire on the hearth and my creative side gets rolling too. December, January and Febuary are my most productive months. I usually start a new book around the first of the year. This year I'll be finishing the one I started last year. My new work has been side-tracked by my venture into self-publishing. Now that I've navigated the ropes once, I hope to get my next three books in The Futhark Chronicles up and available with fewer headaches and many fewer hours.
The need to rake leaves, bring some wood in for the winter and do late season weeding are going to distract me for a few more weeks, but then the season of writing will move in with a frigid howl.
When is your best season for writing? What seasonal chores distract you at this time of year?
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Probably winter as well. Summer would be good, but heat and humidity are too draining.
Since I have animals and gardens in an area that stays warm nine months out of the year, it would have to be winter. I still have animals to tend, but the garden is limited to the greenhouse and that gives me more time to write.
Spring. That's when I get the most ideas. But for me, the different seasons often inspire different kinds of ideas, like ideas for old projects that I wrote at the same time of year before.
Winter usually, though this summer in Texas it was so brutally hot I stayed in most of the time.
It's hard to get my fingers on the keyboard in the spring, and now that fall is trying to cool us off I look forward to being outside during the day.
Our weather can't seem to make up its mind. And I'm not sure what my optimal writing season is, although winter seems to be better than summer.
That picture was undoubtedly taken in my town (in the "snow belt" south of Buffalo) when I was a child. I remember it well! We were warned not to touch the wires! I LOVE WINTER...which is when I love to write, like you--curled up by the fire with a mug of hot mulled wine and a big, warm dog. Don't get me started...
Definitely the winter when things are slow and I can curl up in my recliner with my laptop. Good luck with your series.
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Spring and fall are my busiest speaking seasons, so it's difficult to write then. Winter is probably my favorite but I can crank out a book in summer, too.
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