New Writing Space Blues
I’m sitting in my new writing space listening to a storm coming through. The tin roof amplifies the sound and I can hear nothing else. The noise doesn’t hinder my words, in fact, it helps to block out all other thoughts. The rain is loud and hard, I made it just in time. For the moment, I am trapped inside my writing room. If I were to leave now I would be soaked to the skin before I made the house. I am warm and dry and I am thankful. I have discovered, as I’ve begun using this new space, a few things about my new building: I am never…
Where Do You Write?
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) wrote about having a writer’s space in A Room of One’s Own. In this book, she spoke of women writing fiction and the need to have both a place and the finances to write. When she write this book, women had specific roles and writing wasn’t one of them. Times have changed. What hasn’t changed is the need for writers to have a dedicated space for writing. This space is physical and emotional space. How many of us have this space? How many of us make this space for our writing? It is difficult to find and to make this sacred. I have worked for the past…
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