Writing specifics or Why is Alan a slave driver?

This week on Topic Tuesday our directive (per assistant slave driver, Kage Alan) was to share our ideal writing situation. That CD we have to have playing, or the room we work best in, or our lucky slippers, or whatever. I know everybody has a certain something, or several certain somethings, to help them get into the groove of writing, but try being put on the spot to identify them. Most of the time my writing comes when it comes. 

I don't have a special room. I wish I did, but I've got 3 boys still residing at my house, and they like having their own bedrooms...go figure. Maybe one day I'll get at least one of them out of the house and then I can have a writing cave, but the way my life goes someone else will need/want/have to have the room for something they can't live without and I'll be SOL again.

I don't have a specific CD to play when I write. At times, a certain song will help set the stage for a scene or an emotion I'm needing to convey, but I don't pop NIN into to the CD player/disc drive and crank out the next novel to top the NY Times best sellers list. I wish my writing would flow that way. I might have more written then I do at present. 

I've written in my car. I've written in my bed. I've written at the dining room table. (No office, remember?) I've written at work (as I am now). I've written on notebooks, loose leaf, printer paper, napkins, receipts, my hands, my arms, and if others were close to me, their hands and arms. I'm not picky, but I am forgetful. 

I've never been able to sit down and have the words flow. It doesn't happen for me that way. I envy those who can. I guess my best answer to Kage's query is I write best when the words and the story are in sync with me, and I with them...whatever that means.   

As always, check out the list of Usual Suspects and their niches here.

(As to why Alan is a slave driver? Personally, he gets off on it. LOL You know I love you more'n my luggage, Kage.)