I have discovered that I am most comfortable writing in places that I’m not too comfortable. When I get too familiar with a space, it gets knotted up with established habits, and it becomes a less effective place to work for me—especially if those habits are bad.
I write best late at night, when the world gets quiet and there’s less life going on to distract me. Which is a bit problematic, because it really mucks up my sleep schedule (I do best if I get up before noon, so staying up till 4 am becomes messy).
As for what I write on…heh. So, I predate computers? Pencil and paper were pretty much my only option till I was 15. And yet, it was never a tremendously effective way for me to write. I thought too fast to be able to keep up with myself. Getting a computer made a huge difference. Then I fell out of practice with fiction writing for many years. Now that I’ve taken it up again, I’m getting into the craft of it in a way I never did before, and oddly, pen and a notepad are becoming a valuable tool for me. Sometimes I can write on paper when I can’t on computer, and I always keep a notepad in my bag so that I can scribble scenes and things if I’m out at lunch or something.