(lmao at above post)

I am not allowed to go into any more museums with dinosaurs in it. Too much of a temptation.

I am not allowed to count cards at Casino's. This isn't magical, but I don't want to get beat up by Morpheus. Again.

Having sex with Mauve is not a good idea. Think icicle.

I'm no longer allowed to enchant Murphy into thinking she's Buffy.
a) Having done that, I am especially not allowed to tell her that Morgan is looking pale.
b) Having done that , I am under no conditions to give her a stake.

I am no longer allowed to enchant the word "communist" to Barack Obama's forehead. Not very politically correct.

I am not allowed to read the Codex Alera series again. No matter how well putting a mental Discipline Collar on Lasciel worked.

I am not allowed to raise an army of 10,000 Uruk'hai and give a inspirational speech. "This night! The land will be stained with the blood of the Red Court! March to South America...leave none...alive! To WAR!"
a) Even if I have a convinient tower to yell it from.

-Use a computer, old-fashioned typewriter, or pen and paper?
Computer.

-Set aside a time every day to write?
No. When the mood takes me, or when I have a particularly good idea, or when I have nothing else to do and time to burn, I write.

-Force yourself to write something every day, even if it comes out stilted?
No.

-Have an outline, or just start with an idea?  If an outline, how detailed is it?
I've despised outlines since high school english. I generally write without a written plan, but I have a layout somewhere mentally. Most of the time.

-Have a room or area specifically for writing?
Beauty of laptops, can go anywhere. Starbucks ftw!

-Play Queen or Queensryche to shut out the world, or do you need complete silence?
I write the same way I read: Anywhere, with any distractions. When I'm doing either of those things, I'm completely unaware of anything going on around me.

-Start with plot, or with characters?
I start with neither. I focus on ideas and concepts to guide my writing. For example, my current book focuses on Syntropy opposed to Entropy. All plot and charactes are somehow derived from that. I know, it's horribly vague and general, but I get my best plot elements and characters by using general concepts, usually antithesis's, as central ideas. Antithesis's? Antithesisii? Antithesises? Bah. To quote Dresden, stupid latin corrospondence course.

-Edit and re-write as you go, or when come to the end?
Definitely as I go. Particularly urgent ideas usually leave out such meager considerations as grammer when hurridly typed out, and the next day I usually make major revisions.

-Show your rough draft to others, or re-write first?
To others, I've gotten a lot of good feedback on my writing from it, which is especially valuable in my case because this is the first book I've undertaken. Other than English class essays, (I'm a high school senior graduating in just a few days), I've not received any review of my writing, until I decided to start writing my aforementioned book.

-Struggle most with dialogue, exposition, action scenes, or bridge scenes?
Dialogue for me is easy. Action scenes are my specialty. Bridge scenes are also not particularly difficult. No, what I have trouble with is the overall length of scenes. The problem isn't a lack of detail, it's that oftentimes my scenes are simply a tad too short, as if I'm trying to hurry to the next one. Character development is also something I need to practice, perhaps a symptom of my aforestated lack of cohesive planning in my writing.

-Talk about what you are writing to others?
Almost everyday.