It’s a little late in the day, but better late than never, right?

This topic is brought to you in part by: Florida Weather. As in, it’s too-freaking-hot-to-think-let-alone-type-on-a-laptop. According to Yahoo! weather, it’s 88 outside. Well, 87 of those degrees are in my house. Yes, it is currently 87 freaking degrees in my place of residence. My AC can’t keep up with it. Did I mention the 105 heat index? No? Well, I should have.

This got me to thinking about writing conditions, prime ones an not-so-prime ones. Heat is definitely not a good one. When it’s damn near hot enough to bake an egg on a car (Okay, I’ve never actually done it, so I don’t know how hot it’d actually have to be, but you get the gist of what I’m saying here), I promise it’s hot enough to fry a few brain cells.

Anyways, I thought I’d make a list of writing conditions.

Good:

• Cool weather.
• Good mood.
• Loaded up with goodies: IE, for me, this specifically means Mt. Dew.
• Good jams. I’m not a I-have-a-playlist-for-every-book type of writer, but I do like my music on.

And of course..

• Nice characters. Meaning they’re talking to me in anything other than jibberish.

Bad:

• Hot weather.
• Bad mood. (Actually, this really depends on the day and the story I’m writing–sometimes a bad mood is a good thing.)
• Lots of distractions.
• Did I mention heat? Well, it deserves to be here twice.
• Cats trying to type for you. It’s adorable, really, but kinda hard to work through.
• Bad characters. Meaning, the story is not moving and the character’s lips are sealed with superglue.

So, what about you? What are some good/bad writing conditions?