Creative Writing 3: Learn to accept what suits you

It is important to realise that writers very often:

• Read their text aloud as they write.
  
• Read with emphasis and stress on words
  
• Mark up their text with pauses and underlines like a radio script.
  
• Walk around as they read.
  
• Write as they talk when people are listening to or entertained by what they say.

You should not feel peculiar about doing these things or indeed anything that makes you feel you are improving your writing including:

• Lying on your side and sucking your thumb whilst day dreaming at dawn whilst waking up, (This is how I thought up many my children’s programmes).
  
• Having a notebook dangling from sting by your bedroom chair. (How many of the ideas that started my PhD originated).
  
• Mark up their text with pauses and underlines like a radio script.
  
• Lining up all items on your desk perfectly before starting…..etc etc,
  

and many other naturally weird, obsessive and what I have come to accept are essential aids to creative thought..