The most important thing about your writing space is how it makes you feel. If each time you sit at your desk you see unfinished tasks waiting to be accomplished, how likely are you to be able to put them aside and focus on your writing? If your office is also the place where you do business – anything from paying the family bills to running your own company – it might not be an easy place for you to relax enough to be creative. But even if that space is the most obvious and the most practical place for you to create your writing haven, it might not have the best atmosphere for you to be creative. If you have a spare room or home office, you may automatically think that this is the best place for you to write. Where does your creative energy flow most easily?
The important thing is for you to find where and how you write best. There are writers who can only write with music blasting, and others, like me, who find it distracting. I’ve known writers who write best in a crowd, and others who crave solitude. I’ve known writers who love a messy desk and those who can’t write until all their pens, pencils, papers and other paraphernalia are lined neatly in rows. So what do you do when you have to share you space with the rest of your family? First, remember there is no one right space in which to write. It’s a room totally for me and Open Door Publications and I’m quite proud of it.īut not everyone has the space for a room totally devoted to their writing work. I’ve had an office in my home for over 20 years, but this is the first time that the room has not doubled as something else, like a guest room, also. Any of you who are personally acquainted with me know that I managed to set up my office for a lot less than that! One of the people interviewed had just spent $25,000 on her new office.
I recently heard a radio report on “the new home office,” and since we had just moved and were in the process of setting up my own new office, I was very interested to hear what others were doing.
0 kommentar(er)
