{"id":7747,"date":"2014-06-11T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2014-06-10T22:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T02:12:56","slug":"wednesday-blogging-stuff-i-need-so-i-can-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=7747","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Blogging: Stuff I need so I can write."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, I’ll read interviews with writers and they’ll be all, “Do you have a ritual? What do you need to get the creative juices flowing?” and the writer is like, “I need my Mont Blanc fountain pen and a glass of exquisite red wine and a Moleskein notebook beautifully collaged with inspirational photos that evoke the tone and mood of my characters and settings.” And I’m like, get the fuck over yourself, you sound like a total diva, and everybody knows you wear sweatpants and guzzle Diet Coke because we see your ass talking about it on the Twitter\u00a0daily<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But other times, I’m like, what if\u00a0everybody<\/em> has a special ritual for writing? And I’m the only one who doesn’t? Because I am, as I have long suspected, not a\u00a0real<\/em> writer? Because I’m a fraud?<\/p>\n

I really hope the other writers this week have similar answers to mine, or else I’ll look like an asshole. I also hope that none of them use Mont Blanc pens.<\/p>\n

Here’s my totally boring and not at all original list of things I need:<\/p>\n

Tunes.\u00a0<\/strong>I make Spotify playlists for all the books I’m working on. I usually share these on Tumblr<\/a>\u00a0after the book comes out, but other times I share them in progress. Whatever, I’m easy. Anyway, the songs I add are sometimes songs with lyrics that remind me of plot points, some just reflect the tone of the story, and others are just like, “Hey, I heard this on the radio and I want to hear it several times a day.”<\/p>\n

Here are the playlists for the projects I’m working on right now:<\/p>\n