I have been blogging for more than two years and so far, I’ve written more than a thousand posts and published about 930. I can tell you that all of those posts were typed using my ancient laptop, a Sony Vaio laptop just two months shy of turning six. It’s been very reliable over the years even though it has indeed caused a few scares. 

I scarcely draft my posts in my notebook by hand since it’s just too time consuming and my right hand has a slight case of carpel tunnel due to the overuse of mouse, what can I say, my job demands it, so it makes writing by hand painful and torturous.

I prefer to write my posts in a quiet environment, which currently is my white-washed basement bedroom compare to six months ago, which was my pale-green top floor bedroom. I often turn off my music to ensure my posts turn out okay. At the same time, I don’t like an environment that’s too quiet. It makes my nerves tick and irritable. So what’s in between? I haven’t figure that out yet.

Recently, I’ve discovered I can write more at night before bed than I can do in the day time. For one thing, I am not as frequently bothered by my mom and for another, night equal sleep which equal dreams which kick-starts my imagination.

Before my mom became unemployed, I would often write impromptu posts like the response to the Daily Prompts because I was often alone at home. Now, who knows when that will be possible again.

She calls my name every few minutes. Doesn’t she know that it breaks my train of thoughts? Oh right, I can’t tell her that because we’re not on really good terms lately again. She often assumes I’m still sleeping just because I don’t go upstairs for breakfast. Well I’m not a baby. I don’t get hungry that often. Besides, who can sleep when you’re stomping upstairs?

Due to the circumstances, during the past few months, I have to write my posts at night. Sometimes, I would write several of them and publish them over a course of few days. Of course, I try not to be too annoying of publishing too many posts in one day since I’ve read about people complaining about some blogger’s excessive posting habits. I try not to go over three posts a day but typically, I would stop at one but sometimes, I’d post one more. It depends.

I don’t think I can even write at a coffee shop. Too much activities around. When I write, I need zero activities though that’s not always possible. My mind is always wandering off to some faraway galaxy.

To conclude this post, one of my dream setting to write would be in a room surrounded by nature, tall leafy trees, birds calling, water rushing, and wet soil. There’s hardly any nature where I am, mostly just concrete and asphalt. The only birds I can see and hear are crows and ravens. I hardly consider them to be nature’s birds. My other dream would be to spend the day writing. No homework, no exam to study, not have to work, just alone with my computer and write.