Just write

How do you begin writing every day?

Does it take a cup of coffee to jumpstart your writing?

Are there certain rituals you go through before you write?

What sort of surroundings comprise your writing space?

Some authors simply would not think of writing without background music, perhaps burning incense or candles to capture just the right ambience to fuel the creative juices.

Maybe you don’t need anything to help you along on your writing journeys. You can write anywhere.

For a time, I found New Age or soft music as just the right background for writing. But no music with lyrics lest I found myself singing the words in my brain and becoming sidetracked from the story.

How about a soundtrack that plays rushing water or falling rain or the whirring of a washing machine or dryer?

If you’re a writer, you need to find your comfort zone and it’s different for everyone.

Maybe you’re just fine banging out words on a typewriter at the kitchen table. For someone else, the writing table is a door across some cinder blocks in a garage.    

The great novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote in longhand standing up. Jack Kerouac banged out his classic novel, On the Road, on scroll paper.

Books have been written from jail cells and mental institutions. The Diary of Anne Frank was created by a Jewish teenage girl hiding from the Germans during World War II.

What have you got to say? What book do you want to write?

If the will to write is there, you won’t need the music, the burning candles, the computer with all the best book-writing software.

You’ll just write the darn book.

Mike Reuther is a novelist and journalist and the author of books on writing. Check out his books at https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Reuther/e/B009M5GVUW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share