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The beautiful, quirky and inspiring workspaces of famous authors
The beautiful, quirky and inspiring workspaces of famous authors
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Or if you're procrastinating because you can't figure out what to write next... 
Looking at the photos, they were either very neat and tidy, or an absolute disaster area. My workspace is the neat and tidy kind (largely because it doubles as a sewing space, so I try to make sure it's easy to switch out writing mess for sewing mess...okay, and because I'm a neat freak). What about yours?
Looking at the photos, they were either very neat and tidy, or an absolute disaster area. My workspace is the neat and tidy kind (largely because it doubles as a sewing space, so I try to make sure it's easy to switch out writing mess for sewing mess...okay, and because I'm a neat freak). What about yours?
I am a tidy person, and organised, I do have piles of papers and stuff, but they are *neat* piles of paper.
I'm tidy/messy. My desk is a shambles, but the rest of the room is organized in its own way. My writing room also triples as my music/gaming room, so I have instruments and other stuff crammed in there. It's a veritable hodgepodge of all kinds of stuff...
I live (and work) in mess. But it's my mess, and if I need something, I just have to plunge my hand into that pile or another and voila! It comes out grabbing what I need.
I have a lot of things- books, clothes, plants, objects of completely no utility. I need them around me. They give me comfort ad stimulate me at the same time.
I have a lot of things- books, clothes, plants, objects of completely no utility. I need them around me. They give me comfort ad stimulate me at the same time.
My workspace is a 4' by 7.5' room, fitted out with an Ikea desk, a 2-drawer filing cabinet that the printer sits on, and a couple shelves. If I don't keep it somewhat tidy, I can't get in the door. The previous tenants used it as a bedroom for their child--there is a window. The window glass is pebbled as if this was once a bathroom. Who knows? It's an old building. Everything you've heard about San Francisco rents is true.
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I'm in a small, neutral (bland) office looking at the sky and apartments across a courtyard. I tend to be tidy. There's a small Tibetan singing bowl and a little Lady of Rocamadour figurine on the window sill and a red print of Taurus the Bull propped up behind me, bought from a very poorly French artist in Brantome.
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I love our study - this time last year, it was a really cramped room with a tiny rotting dormer that was set to blow away in a high wind - of which there are many on the Isle of Man. Now I sit and gaze at Douglas Harbour and trees and rooftops. My desk is to the right.
Nice!
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No, you run a little wooden stick round the rim until it starts to hum
My neighbours are already nervous of me, the ones who don't know me at all, that is, and I'd prefer to remain an uncertain quantity here.
Ah, a Heisenberg neighbour. The type that collapses into an eigenstate if you trim the hedges in the nude.No, you run a little wooden stick round the rim until it starts to hum
That's not just me, is it?
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No hedges and I only sing in the nude in the bath. They are mostly (there are nice exceptions) what is quaintly known as 'fur coat, no knickers'. In a golf playing, personalised number plates kind of a way.
I wish I had a writing space. Right now, hubby and I are still in our ~350sqft studio apartment, so I'm usually just typing on my bed. But being in that small apartment means that pretty much everything I need is either right next to me or like 10 steps away.
Another one here who would love a writing space. As it is, I tend to work mainly on my lap-top at the dining table but otherwise, it is grabbing a few minutes here and there, and even proof reading whilst at work in the wind and the rain. I also sense that if I ever do find myself in a position to have a dedicated writing area, I will invest plenty of time and money in ensuring that it looks the business....before reverting to the dining table again with all the daily, household chaos going on around me.
My workspace is tidy, and moves about given my paripatetic (sp.?) life (which is why I disappear from Litopia from time to time). I need to have everything aligned tho I'm not OCD!
This is my space
Hey @Carol Rose , I can see you have three post in notes pinned up (stuck up?) on your whiteboard.
One is blue, two are pink, is there any significance between the colour choices?
One is blue, two are pink, is there any significance between the colour choices?
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Not reallyHey @Carol Rose , I can see you have three post in notes pinned up (stuck up?) on your whiteboard.
One is blue, two are pink, is there any significance between the colour choices?
Love the green desk lamp!
And the mugs? There's quite a collection there!
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Peripatetic, I think
I get accused of being OCD because I don't like things like drawers being left half shut
Oooo...drawers half shut drive me mad! I swear, every time I walk into the bathroom or kitchen, I have to close at least one drawer! That, and socks tossed everywhere (the dining room table is the worst...)Peripatetic, I think
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Socks are gremlins.
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