Okay, but like, if this is the ONLY thing you ever read from me like I don't even CARE if you don't read Déjà Vu, or any of my other works (actually I would but STILL), please let this be it. This is single-handedly the GREATEST piece of information I have learned in my time of being a writer.
Where You Write Matters.
And I've tested this!!! And researched! (If you don't want to learn the facts about this and just want to take my words at face value, scroll until you see a star.)
So, being the I'm-really-good-at-science-and-I'm-a-huge-nerd-human-bean I am, I gathered research, formed a hypothesis, and experimented. This is the only time you will need the scientific method in the real world. Trying to gain stranger's trust on the internet. (That is not true, you'll need it for other things. Pay attention in class, or have the internet to look up the scientific method.)
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Normally, when I write, I'll cozy up in my hanging chair I bought for $62 off of Amazon. It's my creative space. I draw (badly), write, aaaand that's about it. At my desk, I do schoolwork. If I write at my desk, I'll develop ideas during Algebra, and then I fail. (Like what is a hypotenuse???) And if I'm in bed, planning chapters, and then I look at the clock, and I'm like "0-0 I should have been in bed hours ago I-" So I close my notebook and then try to go to sleep, my brain's still thinking of chapter titles and jokes and plots, so then I sit up again and try to write them down, and- You get the gist. It's a vicious cycle.
The science behind this is that your brain will associate what you're doing with the place you're doing it. Therefore, if you are creative at a place you need to be doing school at, you will automatically think of the piece you're writing, the thing you're drawing, etc., instead of thinking about the angle you're supposed to be calculating.
A better example of this is when you're in your bed. (Okay, science nerds, listen up because this is really cool) You're scrolling through Tumblr, or Facebook, or Tiktok (I've covered all my bases, millennials, boomers, gen z... Yea, I've got them), Your brain is like "0-0!! We need to stay awake to read/watch this! Release the awakeness feels!" Instead of "0-0!! We're in bed!! Release the sleeps!!" And then your brain forms patterns.
So whenever you try to crawl in bed without going on your phone because you're exhausted, your brain thinks, "Oh! Phone time! AWAKEN."
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