Does the warmer weather affect your writing habits?

[Rebecca]

Leave your feedback here! :)

Rebecca

[Azariah]

It can make me not want to write at all. I hate heat, unless there is a pool or the sea near by. For the most part I would wrather the temp stayed at 294° Kelvin.

[kshsj777]

Did a google search here.

294 Kelvin = 69.53 Fahrenheit.

Okay that makes sense. I do wonder why you're using Kelvin...

[Azariah]

*Sniggers.*
I'm a pain in the buddux.

[Tarin]

My schedule stays the same year round. Consistency is the key to success, I really believe. ;) But I do think my happier mindset in the warmer, brighter days tends to make my writing come easier, if that makes any sense. Somebody (I think it might have been Anne Lamont) commented that December and January are always the worst months to write, so she avoids beginning projects at that time of the year. Somehow I always end up starting my novels in January - and, whether it's because of the weather or the beginning blues, I'm often miserable during that month. :rolleyes:

[Hosanna]

because I own horses, when the weather is good, I'd rather ride.... :)

[righter1]

I really don't know if it affects me more or not since I'm more sporadic in my writing than I'd prefer to be. Of course, I can be pretty mobile, and have been known to drag my laptop and a chair to the park and write. :) I'll also take notebooks with me out on the boat when hubby wants to go fishing... don't think I'll be able to do that this year since I'll have to tend to the little one AND the dog. :D

[Ransom v. Unman]

Y'know, I have no idea if this affects my writing at all. I'm coming up with ideas and writing pretty consistently no matter what, but I do get tired far more easily in the Summer, and heat makes it very hard for me to concentrate. Or exist.

If I were to venture an hypothesis, I'm sure the heat would affect my writing habits adversely, but I can find no solid evidence to back this up.

[EClayRowe]

The only real change is that when the family stays up later, I can't get to the computer

[SkeeterFranklin]

I write more in the summer because my schedule is more relaxed. The children are out of school (they are in their teens and 20's), so I do less running and more playing. Also there are no church meetings - who wants to meet during the summer? Cooking for the family is simpler and quicker. I make fewer things from scratch and my children like to cook. They won't hear me argue there. I am not a fan of heat, but I will take a schedule made in heaven any day.

[smithcharlottea]

Since I live just a half block from the ocean, it has a calming effect on me. It can be the middle of winter, but just knowing that I am so close to the water makes a difference for me. In the summer hearing the ocen waves, and in the winter looking out my window seeing the ocean inspires me.

[smithcharlottea]

I love the water. Since I live a half block from the beach I am inspired to write all the time. In the summer I can watch and hear the ocean waves. Even during the winter looking out my window at the ocean gives me a great feeling. So I am always feeling inspired.

[melw]

Well for me it is leaving Summer and gradually heading into Winter. But i write pretty much the same. As i don't have wireless internet yet, i woudln't write outdoors, but i guess when we do get it. I might sit in the sun on cooler days. Right now it is nicer to stay inside where it is just that little bit cooler.
Overall i think my writing stays much the same. I haven't really inspected it. But as long as i am comfortable i will write

MEL

[momof3tatertots]

With 3 kids 5 and under, my writing is very hard to get to. It is very frustrating right now because I have this drive to finish one book and start a 2nd, and the ideas and story's are in my head wanting to get out on paper. It seems the longer I go without writing th more frustrating I get and the more jumbles my thoughts get. I am hoping the warm weather will afford me more opportunities to write as I can let the kids out to play and sit on the porch with my laptop and plug away!!! The opportunity to write in any amount right now would b a blessed change.

[jacks girl]

I get outside more but I
take my word pro with me.
So i think i will write more cause
its fun to sit in the sun and
take the dogs outside and
just enjoy writing.

Jacks

[writersprite]

I would like to say that my writing increases because I can take my laptop outside, sit at a table and go along my merry way. The only problem is that I don't have a table yet to sit at.

Then there's the fact that I go with my hubby and our two dogs to the trails for an hour for exercise [me and them]. So, that takes away time; and then it's dinner time; and then sometimes we watch a movie, which is another two hours.

Some days I only have an hour to work, and by that time I'm so tired that I find it hard to write more than 500 words. Perhaps I should adopt the NaNoWriMo attitude all the time....?

[candle]

The heat imprisons me in the air conditioning, so it is actually easier for me to write. However, since I react VERY NEGATIVELY to being manipulated (or imprisoned) I tend to do the necessary, yet ruthless, editing that my writing requires while it is hot outside!

[jonjovi]

Sometimes weather change can be inspiring or just the opposite.

[silvernomore]

I write more because I love outdoors, but I hate the cold. So when it warms up I'll go to the park, or sit near a lake and write. Nature inspires me!

[WriterMan62]

I 'm in Florida and do a lot of writing outside. In the park next to the lake is my favorite place.

[okmedia]

Could the font color of the question be any WORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is, when it is in the left column.

[christformation]

Hi I,m back! I am used to the heat and the occasional scorching sun. The air-conditioner does the work of keeping it cool to write. It's just: 'to write or not to write'. I have been consistently writing whenever I get the time quiet and peaceful to myself. Thanks and 'happy writing'.

[Analeigh]

I love the water. Since I live a half block from the beach I am inspired to write all the time. In the summer I can watch and hear the ocean waves. Even during the winter looking out my window at the ocean gives me a great feeling. So I am always feeling inspired.

I'm jealous, Smithcharlottea. I live near the Great Lakes and the mighty Niagara River, and I feel inspired to write in the same way. But I actually have to get in my car and drive to the beach every summer....

[KSM]

I am drawn to write by such different things... the weather inspires me often regardless of it's condition. Sunny, there is a mystery lurking somewhere or the start of revelations of events or heartstrings. Rain, the epitome of a broken heart but also the fresh smell of a new beginning. Snow is always boring to me but it's a blanket of comfort at times. Thunder is exquisite. Yeah. I write the same no matter the weather. It's all noteworthy. ;)

[RooPalmer]

I love to write. It's my passion. Sometimes i dont know when to stop, but when i feel a need to go out into the fresh air or when i have things to do in town, i get out then. I'm very much an indoors person anyway..but i like picnics and drives..so if there is a church picnic on or hubby wants to go for a drive, i close the computer down and go. But I am an asthmatic so the outdoors makes me cough more.
Roo

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[healed1337]

The weather doesn't really change how much I write, but I tend to write later at night than usual.

[JCsAngelPen]

In a way, it does make me want to be outside more, but I also think that feeds my creativity and winter just stumps me. =) So, in all, I write more with warmer weather.

[mikemattice]

Maybe because of the crisp Ohio Autumn and explosion of color, I'm most productive and creative in Sept, Oct, and early Nov.
Holidays sometimes inspire me. I don't like heat (actually, "its not the heat, its the humidity" as my mom used to say). Humidity and I don't play well together.

[tamaulipas19602]

The weather is almost always beautiful here in beautiful Mexico, but sometimes, on a particularly nice day I have trouble keeping focused. When that happens I go to a coffee shop or the mercado to be with people for a while. After an hour or so I start working in my head and rush home to get it on paper (screen, actually). :cool:

[Janice Blair]

The beauty of the summer inspires me for new ideas and fresh thoughts. If anything, it is my household chores that suffer during the summer months.
Enjoy.....

[christformation]

Beware of swine flu with fluctuating temperature and weather outdoors.No harm writing with 'mask' on if you are out there.Happy writing under diverse situations.Take care.

[rosewillis]

I love being outside in the spring time. We raise all our own vegetables and have large gardens. Plus we have kid goats, newly hatched quail, 1 month old piglets, chicks, and lambs due very soon. I recently incubated some turkey eggs and had 5 hatch.

Busy time of the year.

Rose :)

[christformation]

You'll never know,just don't eat pork..it's lovely to have a farm of your own.I always dreamt of owning one and be sitting there quietly writing my books while watching the vegetables grow and animals playing about.It's fun right?:)

[rosewillis]

Study up on it. You cannot get swine flu from eating pork.:rolleyes:

[christformation]

I'm ill-informed about swine flu because I don't eat pork. I eat less meat ,more vegetables.Is that healthy?

[Anya]

I keep seeing this poll on the home page, and it's driving me a little bit crazy! What warmer weather? Our expected high today is 12 degrees (that's about 53F, or, if you're Azariah, 285 Kelvin :)). And we're one of the warmer spots in Canada--we're supposed to be grateful that we're not getting snow!

I bought a plastic table and chair set and hung up pots of flowers with glorious visions of sitting outside in the warm sun, enjoying a cool breeze, and writing madly away on my yellow notepad with my favourite pen.

Instead I'm stuck indoors, bundled up in a sweater and blanket, and my fingers are so cold I'm having trouble typing. AARGH!

Of course, I reserve the right to complain about the heat when it finally arrives. :D

[thenewageriseth]

I voted 'Yes', but it also makes me want to write outside too!! :D

[Shaddy]

I hope to write as much as I do in the cooler months. I'll have the windows open so I can write and enjoy the outdoor sounds and fresh air, simultaneously.

[Donna Dawson]

Yes, the warm weather affects my writing because I grow the food we eat. That means preparing 1/2 acre of ground, planting, harvesting and processing, not to mention caring for the chickens that also find their way to the freezers. I don't consider this a bad thing though because I have a whole slew of new ideas when I do get back to work in the fall.

[CarrieLLewis]

I don't really notice a difference. When it's warm out, I tend to write warm weather stuff; when it's cold out, I tend to write cold weather stuff. My daily writing exercise has really helped me to make use of every day to do a little bit of writing.

And some days, the weather is what gets me started for the day.

[Tweakys mom]

I write every waking hour, well almost. That is until the past 2 weeks. I am having vision problems and can't write right now and it is driving me crazy. So many ideas and unable to see what I am writing. My eyes tire easily because of the blurred vision, but God is helping me cope. I will see the doctor tomorrow and he will tell me what is happening. I had double vision for a little while, but that is gone now. Please pray I am not losing my sight. That would be devastating.

[EileenStLauren]

http://mysite.verizon.net/eileenstlauren
website not current
Greetings to All,
I have been without full sight for one year and had to hold my head down and wasn't able to move let alone go outdoors save for doctor visits, etc. Even though I can now still I am indoors trusting the Lord to help me rewrite a novel! I have landed the BEST agent in my field to read my work once completed.
I had two back-to-back retina detachment leaving me disadvantaged with regard to sight. However, I am able to see and not 100% blind like I was. This happened to me at an early age. I was told that my eyes just wore out. It was tough. I would not wish THAT on anyone. My surgeon is in the top ten in USA and one mile from me so that has helped me, greatly.
It may amuse you to know that during some of my surgeries I hummed "Jesus Loves Me." You stay awake druring eye surgery and it's not easy to not move, etc.
My dear husband planted a rose garden for me to see outdoors once I could see again. And it's lovely!
During this difficult time, Momma Rose went to heaven and I was unable to attend BUT the good Lord comforted me (and her!) for I as able to say Goodbye!
I decided to rejoin this site just now. I don't know what, if anything is going on save for my writing and now daily Bible reading of 16 days. And, of course, I keep up with the daily news. Other than that, I am praying to be a published novelist. Please pray for me! Take care. Eileen St. Lauren, website not current

[Toni Sue]

I'm busier in the summer because my husband and I own a commercial cleaning and lanscaping business. I pray for cold weather to start early around here ;)

[Morrisey]

I live in Central Florida. Oddly enough, the summertime here is the time when I ride the motorcycle a little less (heat and mid-afternoon thunderstorms) and gauge how much I want to go somewhere by how much time I'll have to spend outside in heat and humidity. So it is a great time to be glued to the keyboard. Now, February, when daytime highs are in the 70s and evenings are perfect for a fire in the outdoor fireplace ... that month is a productivity killer.

[christformation]

God's Servants are like the Weather!

The weather is God's servant.......or rather,His Servant is like the weather!
Sometimes,He uses them to bless the ground,and at other times to flood the earth and wash away whatever there is.
Sometimes,He uses them to shine so that things grow as they
should or at other times to dry up all things,so that there is nothing left!
Sometimes to cool with breeze, at other times to blow everything away.Sometimes blessings,sometimes curses!
The weather is God's servant......or rather His Servant is like the weather.

So watch it how you treat God's Servant, The Christ.:cool:

[Showren]

I do go outside, but sitting in the grass on a sunny day with my notebook to write in, is amazing!! In the summer time too, I tend to have more time to write :p

[Seralee]

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Rebecca

emmm... when it comes to the weather and writing, i prefer a not to warm not to cold weather. a cold weather condition is a turn off, a warm weather condtion is relaxing.!thumbsup!

[Donna Dawson]

I actually had to go to our cottage to get any work done. No phone. No internet. No gardens. No pets. And no kids. Just me, hubby and my laptop. It allowed me to get lots of writing done.

[Seralee]

:) Hmmm... i have always loved wrting. There were times when I write without taking a meal. I remember writing for hours without breakfast and lunch. My siblings used to wonder what I do at the dinning, at times, the food is on the table, books, papers, quotes, dictionary, everything is just piled and scattered everywhere... this adrenaline of writing till i finish well up inside me... it was fun. I still write, I still love writing; especially fictional romance. My kind of environment is a quiet place, cool music in the background, serene... just me and my laptop... writing is the best thing that ever happened to me. !thumbsup!

[Mona]

It would except that I hang out in air-conditioning. I am useless if I get too warm and down right sick, if I get too hot. I am working on being a very serious writer, trying to get my life organized to that endeavor. My answer is No, but because...of air-conditioning.

[Laurel Crowned]

I live in Maui. It's pretty much always warm on my side of the island. It does get a bit uncomfortable when it's hot w/o a breeze... but writing is what I do. The weather doesn't really affect my writing at all.

[Cynthia]

I have Raynaud's syndrome which equates to hypersensitivity to cold temperatures. Usually affects fingers and toes and sometimes can hinder the ease of writing. But when its extra hot outside, I run out like a carefree child set free to recess! I blossom in the sun and enjoy talking to God in my journaling.

[PTTM627]

I agree, heat drains me and really puts me in lazy mode. I prefer it to be cooler, I think my mind is more alert and active to do more. Arlice

[daily4Him]

A friend of mine who's moving gave me a very nice two seater swing - the kind where each seat can be adjusted to pull back and snooze if you want. Most people use the middle compartment (big) between the two as an arm rest/table between them) as a cooler for beverages. In front of that are two cup holders. Above is an adjustable canape. I use the beverage area for writing/studying materials and the holders for my drinks. Spend EARLY mornings there (usually) and late afternoons/evenings doing the same. Tried taking the laptop out to do work electronically, but the natural light interfers with the screen no matter how I turn it. Instead, back to the basics which I've come to love, then transfer later once the sun goes down. Nice though. The hummingbirds are pretty fearless and nosey. They'll flint on by close enough to touch sometimes until they start fussing at each other.

Actually, this is kinda a sneaky question. I jot down notes when I'm out and if not distracted my mind acts like a yard full of baby chicks suddenly let loose. I don't know if its the weather, or casual attitudes of summer, maybe a larger influx of tourists, but its easier to draw them out in conversations at this time of year. Lots of ideas squirreled away for a (ahum) rainy day.

[Hisart]

Well ...

I'm outta school, so I'm not writing papers ...
My kids are outta school, so I have less private time ...
Schools are closed so my wife is home, less private time ...

The warm weather doesn't affect my desire to, it just brings conditions that interfere ...

And all this affects my art as well.

But at least it's not snowing!!thumbsup!

[daily4Him]

Today:
Yeah, sure does! Canned tomatoes, made and froze speggetti sauce; sadly looking over the last of the tomato plants; deadheaded most of the basil, arugula; smacked my hands to NOT water the back-back yard (goal is to transplant all the succulents/cactus into larger pots and turn it into a water resistant area). Severly cut down most of the branches of dead tree in the very back corner. Ignored the large community of hummingbirds fuss over this (they live in a wall of orangecape honeysuckle that's on one side of the fence).

Fed all the plants, used the Furminator on the dogs, vaccummed, and cleaned the kitchen floor. Just got a phone call from a friend asking if I wanted to come over and help paint. If I TRIED to write later, think I'd probably fall asleep and wake with the impressions of little squares on my forehead.

[christformation]

The weather is okay but I still can't write.Nothing to do with the weather,I suppose.Do I have the right motivation to write or am I really emotionally disturbed about something.Does the weather affect our emotions?:confused::confused:

[Lone Wolf]

I live in the sunny Southern California desert where the average day-time temp during the summer is about 120. Granted, it's been a rather lax summer with the hottest having been around 116. Thankfully, it's been a mostly dry summer, so it's all nothing but a dry-heat, something you don't appreciate until you get a very humid day and 120 high.

So, since going outside is out of the question, I write.

[paulchernoch]

I voted the same. However, the kids run around all day playing during the summer and get tuckered out, so when I come home and they usually go to bed earlier. This means I have more time to write - if I choose.

[jasongarrett]

My personal creativity thrives in cooler, colder weather. Glad to see I'm not alone in this. :)

[Artaqstar]

I love when the weather changes. I like to sit in my garden and write. The amount of writing doesn't change.. Just where I write. :)

[Azariah]

New poll!

*Shakes fist*

New poll! New poll! New poll! New poll! New poll! New poll! New poll! New poll! New poll! New poll!

[mkcanaday]

I'm afraid I'm just like a school-bound kid - outside whenever weather permits! I'll find some kind of "project" that "needs" (yeah, right) to be done so I can justify the time, but it's just an excuse. Gimme fresh air and sunshine! :-)

[nataliagortova]

I plug my laptop in on the patio. No change in writing schedule, just location.

[writersprite]

Can we get a different poll? :D

[christformation]

I don't think I can write in that situation

[mikemattice]

I responded to this poll quite some time ago. It seems to me that I approached it more like: "Does the weather affect my creativity and productivity as a writer? i.e. Is there a particular season/ type of weather in which I am more or less creativie?"

[Kwiltnwriter]

I tend to write more because the room where I write is bitter cold in the winter! Spring and fall are the most productive times for me- and summer slows a bit because I have the kids home and I don't like running the AC all the time. :(