Art Quirks

[applejack is best pony 22]

So I was thinking about posting this in the fanfic area, but seeing as how it doesn't really have much to do with actual fanfiction decided it belonged here.

Anyway, I've found over the years that when I'm in the middle of a piece of writing, (be it fanfic or other) I cannot watch/do/see anything that has to do with that particular subject. (in this case we'll say mlp fim) Not until I've finished writing whatever story I was in the middle of. As you can imagine this can make my slow streaks/"writer's block" sections extremely annoying for me. If I do come across something dealing with it I will freeze and be unable to write or enjoy it until I finish my story.However once I've finished the piece I've been working on I tend to go on a binge on all of the stuff I missed out on.

 

So the question is this, anyone else have any weird or exacting writing/drawing/whatever type of art quirks that you absolutely must do or else it messes with your entire process?

[zDashiez 496]

hmm yea when im sketching i must have (for lack of a better word) deep? music playing if i don't i just seem to lose all motivation and creativity.

Bit different when i'm using a tablet i can't have the internet on at all and i need music/video playing, otherwise i feel abandoned and alone which clearly means nothing will get done.

[Guest]

I have to have a notepad with me at all times to write my ideas down or I go into a panic and I suddenly get a billion ideas that I will forget. :/

[PonyHag1 591]

I always have to have music playing when I draw.

[applejack is best pony 22]

I have to have a notepad with me at all times to write my ideas down or I go into a panic and I suddenly get a billion ideas that I will forget. :/

 

I know how that goes, and yet I stopped because it's always when I lack my notebook in public that some amazing idea seemed to occur to me. Then I spend the rest of the day paranoid and repeating it in my head.

 

As for music I find it distracts me, (Always put on Enya or something lol) and I wake up hours later and grumpy