things that turn novel writers on

No you're not strange or bad


Things that turn me on:

Stationary...ahhhh. Pens, pencils, and all other writing materials just make me drool.

mesh138 said:

A confession:

I get turned on when I open my novel in microsoft word and the program sort of chokes, and then takes a good ten seconds to load all the pages. I like watching all the numbers flash at the bottom of the screen. 100 Pages. 200 pages. 300 pages.

Am I a bad person?

Help me.

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When turn two ideas that have been lurking in the back of the head suddenly find themselves linked into a complete story... Gives me the shivers.

Epiphanies = Rapture

a well described pair of legs

The smell of a new ream of paper.

The smell of a new book

The smell of a new book with my name on it!

A girl can dream!

The eletronic whoosh-whoosh of a printer as it converts a story of mine from virtual cyber-text into reality. It's kind of like pulling a cartoon character right off the screen into the real world.

the smell of an old book

and when i get a second hand book and see people's notes in the sides. i love that

scarletpeaches said:

The smell of a new book with my name on it!

A girl can dream!

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Walking into a bookshop and seeing a whole shelf full of my newest book, and a sign saying "Book of the Week", and readers queuing up all around the corner!

Oh, and what really turns me on is a certain white envelope in my mailbox with my agent's name on the back, and inside is a "payment advice".

I'm very glad to see I'm not the only person turned on by various smells. My non-writing friends look at me like I'm weird when I flick the pages of a new book and inhale. Especially in public.

oh, i never do it in public....

I do. I'm shameless.

I get turned on when, after proofing something I just wrote, I realize it still has the same power as it did when I brought it into existence.

walking into Staples (a stationary store) or Best Buy - the laptop section.

*shivers*

I'm such a cheap date.

Author groupies

Someone asks for my authorgraph.

You know what turns me on? When I go to a bookstore and I see a cover for a book by a favorite author, I imagine my own name, novel title, and cover illustration on it. One can dream, right?

aadams73 said:

Stationary...ahhhh. Pens, pencils, and all other writing materials just make me drool.

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I thought I was the only one!

I love spiral notebooks and new pens. I own more notebooks than I could fill in a lifetime.

A trip to Office Max is my second favorite way to spend the day...the best is a day in the library!

Imagining people sniffing my book one day.

Oh god, that sounds so wrong out loud.

Reading a critique and finding comments in the margin that say, "I love this line," and remembering how I felt when I first wrote the line, and how much I loved it.

Oh, and reading something I wrote and finding that I can still get lost in my own stories.

mesh138 said:

I get turned on when I open my novel in microsoft word and the program sort of chokes, and then takes a good ten seconds to load all the pages. I like watching all the numbers flash at the bottom of the screen. 100 Pages. 200 pages. 300 pages.

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My turn on? That my Writing folder is now approaching one gigabyte.

Julie Worth said:

My turn on? That my Writing folder is now approaching one gigabyte.

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Hail!