Dalton Trumbo
(Our regular Reader Friday scribe, Deb Gorman, is on break.)
Today’s questions:
- Where do you usually write?
- If you could pick anywhere to go for a solid month of uninterrupted writing (all expenses paid!) where would it be?
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I do about 90-95% of my writing sitting at my home office. Sadly, I know that if I was sent to HI by myself for a week, I’d get writing done, but not as much at home. I would have to be in a roomful of writers that would hold me accountable to put my fingers to the keyboard to work efficiently outside of my home office.
95% of time at my home computer. Occasionally at work during lunch with my door closed.
“Going somewhere” for a month to write would defeat the purpose because if it was some special-occasion place I wouldn’t get anything done. Writing at home is my best bet even though that too, is filled with distraction challenges.
At home, at my desk, on my PC.
I’d probably want to stay home, but without anyone else around.
I write exclusively in my office, but I dream about getting away to write undisturbed. I want to stay at a state park, in a cabin that has wi-fi. That way I could get out and take a walk each day, be able to open the windows to birds singing, and not be tempted by the city lights and smells emitted from nearby restaurants.
I do 95-100% of my writing in my writing room. Once in a while, I write on the couch.
If I could go anywhere for a month, I’d choose either a cottage at the Oregon coast, or a cabin at Lake Quinault, where my annual writer’s retreat is. A truly magical place.
I believe it was Louis L’Amour who said he could write anywhere if he had a typewriter, even in the middle of a busy intersection. Yeah, that’s not me. We travel a lot and I always take a spiral notebook and a handful of pens, as well as my laptop. I never write anything. On a three-month trip boondocking in the southwest, I planned to write all day while my husband was out with guys on ATVs. Nada. I have to be in my room at my desk and on my desktop computer to write anything. I can’t seem to write on my laptop no matter where it is. I guess I’d have to stay home more to get more writing done.
I have an old recliner is write sitting here with the television on tuned to the news. no sound. Don’t know why but it works for me.
If I could write uninterrupted I’d be right where I am.
On the couch in my bedroom, with my 2-year-old grandson’s Hot Wheels cars just to my right. I’d rather stay home to write, but prefer it when the house is quiet and no one needs my help for anything. I have a sign on my bedroom door that has two sides — “Speak friend, and enter” and “You Shall Not Pass.”
“Speak friend, and enter” and “You Shall Not Pass.”
Hysterical! 🙂
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These days, I do 90+% of my writing in my office in my house in the woods. I designed the space as a writer’s retreat–well, as *my* writer’s retreat. My ridiculously expensive ergonomic Aeron chair has paid for itself several times over in the 22 years I’ve been using it, and it still looks brand new.
That said, after nearly four decades as a road warrior in my Big Boy Jobs, I can write anywhere. I love to close out the evening in a city away from home sitting at the hotel bar with my notebook and fountain pen. Over the years, I wager I’ve written over 500 pages of my books that way.
I sit in the recliner in my office, my laptop perched on the laptop stand that puts my hands at the perfect height for writing. Although I’d love to go to a retreat for a week (a month would be too long), it would be hard to find a place as well-suited for writing as my comfy recliner.
But, heck, if it’s all expenses paid, I’d pick Mt. Hermon in California.
At home in my office at my desk top. I’m most comfortable there.
At home in my office, with silence reigning. Either at one of my desks (I have 3) with a laptop, or on the couch with pen and paper.
Where would I go if I could go anywhere? Hmm…from the living room to my home office, with silence reigning. 🙂 I’m a pretty uncomplicated human.
Have a stupendous weekend everyone!
Because I have such a small, crowded apartment and no free table/desk space, I have to do all of my writing at the coffee table. (Now that I think of it, I do everything at this coffee table, including eat.)
It’s OK I guess but dangerously close to distractions like my TV.
I do most of my writing in my office where it is quiet or I can have music playing and minimal interruptions. It is normally a mess of papers and notebooks, but it is my “safe” place.
If I could have a month some where to write, it would be in the mountains over looking a lake where the only sounds I hear are the bugs and birds, a few animals and the fish plopping over my tinnitus where I can work into the wee hours of the morning and not have to worry about getting up or doing anything other than taking care of myself. I can imagine sitting on a rock and letting the ideas pop up and taking notes and enjoying the peace and quiet with no time constraints/schedule.
Dining room table beside the glass sliding door to the patio so squirrels can climb the screen to demand my attention. They keep me from sitting too long [snort!].