Coffee.... or Tea?

Because I live in Minnesota and November is always cold, I love to keep at hand hot chocolate or spiced apple cider.

I also, usually, keep a bag of candy nearby.

I have to have a cup or two of tea first thing when I get up in the morning.

I try not to drink Diet Pepsi like it's going out of style. Sometimes I do not succeed lol.

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Coffee. And lots of it! I try not to drink too much coffee every day, because I'm already addicted to caffeine and I don't want the addiction to get worse. (If I haven't had coffee by about 3pm, even if I've had weaker types of caffeine, I get terrible headaches). But sometimes is really good. :D

Food-wise, I don't usually eat by my computer. When I do, I like something small and not messy. Ice cups are really good: they're so rich that I can't eat more than one at a time, and they do taste nice!

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Tea. I kept a running tally last year of how many cups I'd consumed.

This year I've got some expensive flavoured tea. Extravagant, yes, but it will be an ideal bribe to myself when I'm struggling with my daily wordcount.

I usually drink whatever is in the fridge at the time or just make some green tea. However this year I'm going to drink water, I have a lap top with wireless even if I have to write on the toilet because of all the water, I will. :)

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I still haven't quite "learned" to drink coffee yet (despite being 22 years old) - I still take it with way too much milk and sugar. Furthermore, I have not yet mastered the art of handling a coffee machine. So it's tea all the way for me. I am going to go out and buy plenty of new kinds for November, and hope that I won't run out, hehe.

Both... but, coffee I can only have a couple of mugs of, or it makes me feel sick. So I'll have some coffee, but more tea.

The regular tea, and green tea with lemon for me. I absolutely love the smell of coffee, but I can't stand the taste.
Also, I usually keep a mug of different cereals, all in layers (without milk) by my desk when I'm writing. That way I can snack without getting mess on my keyboard or having to stop.

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Oh, definitely tea. Unfortunately my desk situation at home doesn't lend itself well to tea drinking, but back at my dorm last year I had an enormous desk so I set out a bunch of candles and made myself a big pot of tea. It was wonderful. I like traditional black tea best.

It's my tradition to drink a Dr Pepper and a large cup of vanilla coffee on the first night of Nano. Dr Pepper is mostly what fuels me throughout the rest of the month since it's more convenient than having to get up and make coffee or tea, but I generally won't say no to anything caffeinated.

I have a bad tendency to not eat while I write, so I have no food preferences.

Tea. If given enough time on my own, I will drink litres of tea. I don't need anything else, and even though I have nothing against coffee, I just can't drink more than a cup at a time. I don't even need to eat anything if I have tea, I want it so sweet, that candy would be superfluous.

Tea usually....but sometimes I'll have a few glasses of wine if my internal censor is too uptight then stuff can get more interesting, although if I over do the wine then it just turns to innane rambling :-)

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Instant Coffee in the mornings.
Coke Zero in the afternoons (if I drink normal I have to get more fillings...)
Turkish Apple Tea, Pomegranate and Grape Tea, or Lady Grey in the evenings/Early hours.

Tea! I hate coffee. :) Black tea mostly, but at times green tea is nice too. And hot chocolate perhaps.

Mmmh, me too..

For me it is coffee. I love it. I always have a cup close by. As for food to go with it. I love to much on dry cereal. My favorite is Honeycomb. I eat it like a snack mix. LOL

Diet Cola, hot sweet tea, chocolate brownie deserts :D and eating dinner very slowly whilst pondering outlines and character profiles.

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Tea. Very hot, very strong, very sweet tea. And lots of it!

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I keep a pot of hot tea nearby in my Mr Coffee. Coffee doesn't do the trick because 1) it's not as pleasing as tea and 2) I make ghastly coffee. Ask my family. I throw in 4 Salada bags and brew 12 cups of tea. It's not as weak as it sounds.

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Tea. A nice oolong or perhaps a green, or even a white, depending on my mood. It's best accompanied by a few pieces of gourmet chocolate or a few truffles. :P

Tea. I prefer the Tazo kind--Calm or Apple Red, on the threshold of warm and hot.

As food sustenance, I choose bread. Not dollar-a-loaf Mrs. Baird's bread, but real bread, crusty and doughy and warm and fresh, maybe with some butter.

In lieu of that, chicken nuggets work just fine.

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Tea! Earl Grey, usually. Gallons and gallons of it.

Definitely green tea for me. I'm with the others who say they haven't "learned" to drink coffee yet. I haven't acquired the taste yet and I don't plan on it.

Foods? hmm, I'm a huge starburst fan. I like to suck on the cherry ones while I write and sip my green tea

I usually drink our great Kenya tea by the gallon - with milk, without milk, with lemon, sugar, honey, weak as water or strong enough to stain your teeth, hot, cold or to impatiently tepid. The fact that its so versatile probably accounts for the quantity I can consume it in.

I gave up coffee a few years back but will occasionally treat myself to a cup of decaf just to remind myself of what I am missing. Most of the time it works to ease the craving and send me back to my tea.

Hot chocolate also comes in handy when it gets very late and/or very cold while any kind of fresh fruit juice - depending on what's in season - does the trick the rest of the time.

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Raw potatoes. It doesnt matter what I have to eat, as long as I can stuff it in. And Raw potatoes are help me focus when I'm writing something emotional. Drinkwise, coffee, and fruit smoothies, and carrot juice ^_^

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Tea! I can't understand that some people like coffee - it's too bitter and it has this very pungent smell... *shivers*

I like to drink 'forest fruit' tea or strawberry tea or green tea with lemon - but 'plain' black or green tea is also fine. I also consume a lot of chocolate cookies (digestive biscuits with chocolade on top) but after a while, your fingers get sticky and you need to get up & wash your hands in order to avoind your entire keyboard becoming sticky. So I usually limit myself to one at a time ;).

If I'm really desperate, I'll eat lots of liquorice. They don't make your hands sticky and it's sweet, soft and tastes wonderfully.

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Coffee coffee coffee! A Gilmore Girls Fan would get it. ;0)

Peffer coffee, especially in the mornings, but I'll take green tea whenever I can--I've been known to go through my tea stash faster than anyone else in the house. (After all, sometimes too much caffine can make you too wired to write.) Tazo brand is peffered, especially Zen and Green Ginger, but I have gone after Awake and Chai; I occasionally do a pot of real tea, such as Chinese Oolong--there's a tea shoppe down in the Lake Baldwin area with a huge selection.

Tea. Lots of it. And hot cider and hot chocolate. I am one of those weird people who can't stand coffee, not even the smell.

Licorice tea. I down that stuff like crazy during November.

And I drink tons of water too.

As for food, there's not really any one thing I snack on, but I generally have a lot of Pretz, dried fruit, and yogurt on hand.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard. - Neil Gaiman

I can do almost anything with a good cup of tea in hand.

It's a great writing-measuring device, too. I make up a 3-pot cup, as well as the cup I'll drink from (so really, 4 cups) and if I write until the teapot is empty, I've usually written enough.

It helps if you go pee first.

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