So my question today is where do you create? I was going to say write, but there are artists and musicians on my friends list as well.
This can be taken in two ways I could mean ‘where do you sit to create?’ or I could mean ‘where is your work set?’
I guess I probably mean both.
When creating is easy for me I can do it sitting on my bed or in the room that is our office/library. When things aren’t going as well I have a place in my room where people can’t see me from the door. It is a pretty small area and my husband laughs about it, but I can get a lot done in my little space. And I can reach most of my reference books without moving much.
When I write my fiction is mostly set in and around Boston. The funny thing is that when I lived in Boston my fiction was all set in the ‘greater Philadelphia area’ – I don’t know why I always where I am not living but it seems easier somehow. Maybe the distance makes my vision clearer?
How about you guys? Do you have a favorite place to create? Or a favorite place to set your creations?
Oh and by the way, I do use a scratching post as desk – it is a perfect height and the cats like to climb in and out of it while I am writing.
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and typing makes my dyslexia worse so that's why I prefer paper. Transfering it allows me my first edit as well so for me it works out though I seem to be a dying breed
I find that the paper makes my dyslexia worse but reading on a screen after a time makes it worse, so I normaly compose on a computor and then print out for editing. I touch type so I'm not normaly looking at the screen when I type.
I know heeps of people who compose in long hand first - I don't think there is any risk of your breed dying.
Unfortunately, an area I can never write in on campus is in the game room, which is where all of my friends are. They are loud and distracting but damn it, I love them to pieces.
yeah freinds can be distracting
when it comes to the actual creating of something? well, you've seen my computer spot. that's it. =)
Yeah. that would be way to public for me. lol
lol, yeah.....
Your little corner is genius, however, because it's probably nice to not be interrupted. I'll have to look into that :)
The corner is nice, sort of part writing space, part library part 'man cave' LOL