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sallytuppence

Room of Your Own

Apr 13, 2007 08:38

So my house is being remodeled, and has been for the last month, and will be for the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile my family and I are living in a tiny rental house a few blocks away. Our house is Our House, and the rental is Baby James's House (because a baby named James used to live there ( Read more... )

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asatomuraki April 13 2007, 14:10:03 UTC

Hmm. I've had various spaces over the years. I used to have a terrible time writing in a cluttered room, but alas, I married a wonderful man who happens to be a packrat. A packrat who has no problem leaving sloping piles of reading materials beside the bed for months. I used to try to change him, either by nagging or doing it myself, but I've given up. He's a great man, wonderful in every other way, so I've learned to accept him as he is. If he wants to wait three months and clear it out in one Massive Cleaning Spasm... *shrug* It's taken me years to come to that place.

I used to go to the small, local branch of our public library. It is very quiet, and people are nice. No music like the local coffee shops. I used to go to the coffee place in Barnes and Noble, but people kept talking to me. THAT never happens at the library. I think the coffee shop culture is unusually social here, or maybe I don't give off strong enough "don't talk to me" vibes.

Now my writing place is in the walk-in closet. I have to run an extension cord, but it's private and quiet and people leave me alone. So I'm a closetted writer. Heh.

sallytuppence April 13 2007, 14:57:06 UTC

A Closet of your own! Sounds like a good solution. Is it quiet and dark?

As I just said in an email to a friend, a true professional would suck it up and write in the bathtub (with no water, of course). Or, like you, in a closet...

asatomuraki April 13 2007, 15:28:42 UTC

It is quiet and dark. My Beloved gave me a light that plugs into a USB port and sits on the edge of mt laptop to illuminate the keyboard, because I stink at touch-typing despite being fairly fast.

If it gets noisy outside, I use headphones. Sometimes the darkness becomes an issue, and my hubby drags me out to work in the back yard. I get something akin to Seasonal Affective Disorder if I spend too much daylight time closed up in there. He also tends to call me at mealtimes so I don't skip meals and get hypoglycemic. :) I know it sounds crazy, but when I get into a story, I hyperfocus and completely lose track of time.

"True professional?" *wince* I haven't published anything since 1990, and that was a poem in a college chapbook. Not giving up, though! :)

sallytuppence April 13 2007, 15:34:47 UTC

Oop, true professional's not really what I meant.

Real writer, maybe. I'm a professional, yes, but still working on the real writer bit...

asatomuraki April 13 2007, 16:08:10 UTC

*grin* Well, I think (for whatever THAT's worth) that the 'real writer' thing is probably a myth. People who write are writers, and most of them probably do it a little differently. There's not a magical formula, just folks trying hard to be their personal best. Progress, not perfection!

*So sayeth the peanut gallery*

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