A+ Roundtable: Our Writing Routines

Hey there A+ member!
This roundtable was inspired both by you, our members, writing in asking for about writing from our team (and I don't think this will be the last roundtable about writing at all!), and by my personal, continuous and enduring failure to maintain any semblance of a regular writing routine. I just hop from one "routine" to another, but actually, don't you have to maintain a certain order of events over a certain number of days for it to be considered a "routine"? Otherwise, is it just a...happening?
So, in an effort to inspire all of us (because sitting down and actually writing words is half the battle), I thought why not start with what surrounds us when we write, when we do it, and what we feel we need with us to begin ...

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