Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Feb 04 2010
Write where you can make the best of it
If you haven't written today, why not? That's not a confrontational question. It's intended to just get your mind thinking about the real reasons why you haven't done much wordsmithing lately. You may think you have some sort of block when what you really have might be the need for a more (or less) comfortable chair or maybe a warmer (or cooler) room in which to work. Some people think one has to have an office equipped with a formal desk, files and full reams of paper neatly stacked nearby before they can create their work. But I know of writers who, at least to begin their projects, scribble in cheap composition books in the car. Some curl up in a porch swing near a honeysuckle vine to get their fiction flowing. I've done some very satisfying work in a public library. I could have quick access to research there and could observe people coming and going and could listen to their conversations and use their words to keep my own characters' dialogue sounding real. Your writing space should be whatever pokes a hole in your writing vein and draws the story from your core.
posted at: 13:38 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
If you haven't written today, why not? That's not a confrontational question. It's intended to just get your mind thinking about the real reasons why you haven't done much wordsmithing lately. You may think you have some sort of block when what you really have might be the need for a more (or less) comfortable chair or maybe a warmer (or cooler) room in which to work. Some people think one has to have an office equipped with a formal desk, files and full reams of paper neatly stacked nearby before they can create their work. But I know of writers who, at least to begin their projects, scribble in cheap composition books in the car. Some curl up in a porch swing near a honeysuckle vine to get their fiction flowing. I've done some very satisfying work in a public library. I could have quick access to research there and could observe people coming and going and could listen to their conversations and use their words to keep my own characters' dialogue sounding real. Your writing space should be whatever pokes a hole in your writing vein and draws the story from your core.
posted at: 13:38 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
