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  • My writing space

    October 29, 2009

    • In another guest post, I talk about creating my writing space. With photos!Thanks to the hosting blog, Savvy Verse & Wit--poke around Serena's blog while you're there.
  • A Room of My Own

    August 29, 2009

    • Virginia Woolf famously said in “A Room of One’s Own” that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” My room is a bedroom which has in place of the requisite bed and dresser: a desk, a couch, two small round tables suitable for setting manuscripts on, and lots of books. I occasionally think I should replace my bookshelves—a walnut bookcase and a ...
  • A Writing Space of One's Own

    February 13, 2009

    • I never thought a piece of furniture would change my life, but here we are. For the past two years, I've been writing via rotating my laptop from my bed to my couch to the 80s leather chair by my wilting fichus tree to the floor by the living room window when a cigarette was needed because I was certain I'd never write another word worth reading again. I was a nomadic writer - wandering from ...
  • Grub Street

    January 27, 2009

    • Long time no, folks. Between the Bruins being in top form this season (slight digression, saw someone else's post about the Black and Gold and thought someone else on RedRoom was writing about the Big Bad Bruins... only to see they're talking about some football team or another... ) and my day job, the one that pays our bills ($28 or so in royalty checks every six months, while nice, is not ...
  • About Writing Spaces and Places

    July 30, 2008

    • My in-home office, comfortably appointed with a large desk, computer, printer/scanner/fax machine, an ergonomically correct chair and good lighting, is my word processing and editing space; I call editing UN-writing... http://www.pw.org/content/ana_elsner I pen down most of my poetry on location, meaning, for example, on an airplane, on a park bench, at the library, when sitting in my parked car ...
  • Because Belle Asked

    July 29, 2008

    • You know, I felt okay about my writing space until a little while ago when I clicked on Belle's photos of hers.Mine is very utilitarian, actually, except for a little corner space of personal mememtos and books and photos.  The walls, yes, the walls.  Ugly as all get out.Anyway, here is the link to my work space, and one of my backyard, early morning view.Thanks, Belle, for bringing us this, ...