because i plan to write for a living, this list should help me be sure that conditions are right

• a dark room lit only by the christmas lights strung around it
• "not a second to waste" - a rocket to the moon
• "the greatest" - cat power
• sigur ros
• the thought of driving to the north shore at night
• symphony by pam houston (sudden fiction)
• no one's a mystery by elizabeth tallent (short story)
• reading stories written by classmates
• being in an english class
• good feedback on something i've already written
• an irritating conversation that makes me realize how much i'd rather be writing
• movies about letters or letter writing
• movies or tv shows with brilliant scripts
• editing rough drafts with a pen and paper (not on the computer)
• "fast car" - tracy chapman
• "one last song" - josiah leming
• "cowboy take me away" - dixie chicks