Writing space

By LostInFiction · Jul 30, 2011 · ·
  1. I've found a fabulous place to write! It's a coffee bar, of sorts, with a creche on-site, there's plug sockets for the laptop and peace and quiet. Unfortunately it's my gym!!
    I say unfortunately, actually it's fabulous - the only down side is that if I'm writing in the bar I'm not doing any exercise in the gym. lol.
    So, I have created a rule, twice a week I have the use of the creche for my youngest for an hour so I go get a decent workout. If I can't workout for any reason I grab a costa beverage, maybe brekkie, and use the time and space to write! It's a win-win.
    Just give me a year or two and I'll have half a novel and will finally be half fit!! :D:D

Comments

  1. mugen shiyo
    Finding that right spot, lol. I never had a spot, though when I was little I tried to find one because...it seemed like I should have one. I write everywhere and anywhere.

    Does it do anything for you different than your home or is it the busy-ness and the people that get you charged?
  2. Radrook
    To me at the moment its the elevation of the keyboard that isn't right. Location is OK. Quiet and very conducive to inspiration. But elevating the hand up this high to hit the keys is bothering me. Bringing the whole laptop down on my lap might result in my letting it drop to the floor by mistake if I get sleepy. Should have bought a desktop computer.
  3. teacherayala
    I'm so jealous right now. I haven't even been to a Barnes & Noble in years, which was one of my favorite haunts to write and grade papers. The only places where I could do that would be in the city, and I'd have to fight for a half hour on my own without the 2-year-old tagging along. :-(
  4. LostInFiction
    Muqen shivo. Hi, I think its the peace, quiet and no distractions that helps actually. At home I have little children and a million and one distractions so being in the corner of the gym coffee bar, where incidently I know no-one, is like a little cupboard for me to hide away in, only more standing room and Costa provisions!
    Radrook, The smallest things can be so distracting, can't they?! I love having my laptop as it means I can change my mind about where and when I write without needing more equipment! lol. I have been known to sit outside whilst my daughter is in dance class, in my car, typing away or noting furiously.... I sometimes use a laptray for my laptop at home and find this quite comfortable - have you tried one? I reckon your laptop would stay put if you fell asleep as long as you didn't forget and jump up suddenly when you woke up!Teacherayala, oh the beauty of an on-site creche! My youngest is just over one so I know the feeling of 'not quite alone'... The days just don't leave enough time to and get a decent stint of writing in and staying up late to write catches up real quick next morning!!! lol.
    Thanks for your comments and thanks for reading my blog!
  5. Radrook

    You know,. I was just about to try that lap tray suggestion and then you added that I might jump up from when I awoke, Since I might just do that seeing that I do tend to be a little absent minded when I wake up I decided not to. I might try a higher chair though. But to be honest, ultimately I see myself shifting to a desktop.

    Actually, what irks me about this laptop, Acer Aspire 7540-1317 is that it shifts from lower case to upper case seemingly at random or when I slightly tap an adjacent key by mistake.
    I have tried to figure out exactly what keys cause this but fail to detect a pattern.


    It is exceedingly distracting since sometimes I notice the shift after I have typed several sentences. Then I have to erase, backtrack and start again. Just now it placed an upper case "h" on the word "then".


    As you know writing can be grueling work and inspiration comes with a struggle very often. To have a keyboard go weird like that right in the middle of an inspired that can be nerve wracking. It can even cause the writer to lose the thread or groove he was in. Like having an enemy constantly sabotaging one
    efforts.

    My 1996 vintage Compaq Presario never once did that t me. I miss it but all things [I just had to backtrack because if went upper case on me]
    must end.


    Kind regards
    Radrook
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