On the couch, nowhere else, and it has to be quiet. Most amount of noise I can handle is a cricket outside... it reminds me of what my audience will be once I finish the book. Just lonely crickets.
When I'm on the heights of the creative process I can write anywhere as long as I can sit down and scribble, computer or handwritten. For the long editing/rewriting process, my computer at my desk. Just like now.
Most often lying on my stomach on the couch (well, the chaise, hence the stomach part--otherwise I'd have a couch arm in my face) propped up on a pillow typing on the laptop, in a way that makes my back say, "You're getting too old for this." With the TV on. I'm also forming a habit of editing on my phone during rest breaks in the vegetable garden. This is useful because it interests me enough to force me to actually take the rest breaks. Otherwise I keep gardening until I'm overheated and dehydrated and have a migraine for the rest of the day.
I write on my desk. I know, it's pretty boring, but I can't write on my bed anymore. It's because I'm over-weight and I'm scared at what it will do to my back. Here's an accurate depiction of me at my desk:
Mostly at home. Buuuuut I do try to get out of the house occasionally and go do it someplace else, mostly because if I'm writing at home, I find it's easy to become distracted.
Almost always at home with my laptop sat on my knee, however the most enjoyable place was whilst on holiday in Madeira. Hubby and son were on a day trip so I took myself off to a harbour side bar, ordered a half pint of lager, and set to on my ipad in the blistering sunshine...bliss!
Out of preference I write mine in my man-cave, a spare bedroom filled with my various weapon collections, books, RPG stuff (the latter two collections are declining into PDFs) and sundry. However, anywhere I can use my laptop; I keep my current projects on a jump drive and try not to let a day pass without some work on them.
Hi there! Thank you for posing this question. I enjoy learning about where others choose to write, as well. I think it's interesting how we all have our own processes and preferences. As for me, when I'm writing (as I take breaks now and then), I tend to write wherever I can, whenever I can. I'll write during many of my lunch breaks at work, on my laptop, in the cafeteria of the university I work at. At home, I tend to write on my laptop while sitting in the living room with my husband, or if it is nice outside, on my back porch while my dogs play in the sun. I'm grateful to have a laptop and this kind of freedom to write where I please!
Gosh, yes. Last summer I got a desktop to replace my old laptop, and while I love the big screen, I miss the mobility of a laptop. If I go into the garden with my dog, I obviously just have to take the old laptop with me, and loading up documents and doing a quick bit of research ends up being a pain. Also, welcome to the forum!
The boring answer is "My kitchen table" an its the only one I can muster. Don't live in a, how to put this nicely, non-shit-hole so typing outside is too dangerous. When I move, hopefully in two or three years, I'll try writing in a garden. Usually brainstorm in my local park so it could work.
So, I was just wondering... where do you all write your blogs/novels/short stories, etc.. I don't mean, which country, on what hardware or software, but in terms of, the room you sit in to write? Do you have a study? Do you sit on your bed and write, or on the couch in front of the TV? I've really been struggling with any form of motivation to write since I came back from a week in NYC, and I'm wondering if a lot of that is to do with the fact that I don't actually have anywhere to go and lock myself away, and start to write. I normally sit downstairs at the table whilst the wife cooks in the kitchen, or watches TV afterwards. The problem with this is that the TV always distracts me, whether I want to watch it or not... I'm just considering now whether I should buy a cheap (£20/$30) desk that I can put in my utility room whilst I'm getting the upstairs spare room and hallway replastered and decorated into a study, so I have my own space to lock myself away in from distraction. M.
I spent two months a couple of years back playing with wood (got the scars to attest). Keeping with the hermit theme on another thread—here's what I made and where I now try to make the magic happen.
I write where ever I can. I used to get hung up on not having a space that felt right, but, for me, it was just a nice excuse to procrastinate or not write at all. It's one of those grass is greener things. Obviously this is just my experience, but I've found that if I'm interested in and excited about what I'm writing, the place in which I write hardly matters. I've even been know to be more productive in chaos.
I write primarily at my kitchen island. I do have a den, but it's in the basement and is more depressing than inspiring. At my island I have plenty of sunlight and snacks/drinks at the ready. If I had a bustling household I might get distracted there, but usually my daughter is away at college and my husband is in his music room tinkering with band stuff most evenings.
I have a large desk in our spare bedroom-office room. I use a desktop computer, so that's the only setup that really makes sense. I have sat on the bed a few times to use our laptop, but I really hate a laptop keyboard, and always end up doing more typo correcting than writing. So back to the desktop. I get a certain amount of peace and quiet in that room, and no distractions ...but the door doesn't lock! So I do get 'people' popping in and out to yak for various reasons.
I'm writing in the garden. Seriously. Come what may, sunshine, rain or thunderstorm, 30C or -5C. Don't know where this particular obsession originated but there it is. On and off I manage to go on further when I'm inside (mostly when the rain rains too hard to be stopped by the big umbrella I've tucked above me, I've gotten good at predicting weather by the way), but that's a rare occurence. Going off to write some more. And yes, I'm sitting outside right now
I usually write at my desktop, but I have a laptop I write on occasionally, while I'm out and about. I find it a bit easier to write on the laptop, especially if I don't know the wifi password of wherever I'm going haha. Fewer distractions, no access to youtube or the facebooks. I can write just aboutanywhere that I'm comfortable and familiar with; I've even written in the car while my spouse is driving on long trips.
On a desktop PC, at a desk in my living room. But I have to agree with @Spencer1990. If the desire and passion is there, it shouldn't really matter where you write.
At this moment, I'm writing with my mackbook as I lay in bed on my left side. There's a pillow tucked under my left armpit, and my feet are hanging over the edge of the bed. I'm wearing my camo-colored skivvies, so the vampires can't see me. The window mount air conditioner next to my bed is whirring and humming, and the cool breeze across my body feels good. It's damn hot outside. I never write at a desk, mainly because I don't have one. So I write wherever I am.
In my current living situation, I don't have enough room to spread out the way I'd like. I have a desk, and I do some writing there, but it's in a fairly noisy environment (my "office" is really just part of our living room - damn this tiny house!). Right now I'm in my bedroom, writing at a tiny computer desk rolled up close to my easy chair. My easy chair is broken, though, so it's pretty uncomfortable, and I don't want to replace it until we have a bigger house, which right now seems like one of those ever-receding goals that's always just out of reach. I'm very frustrated with my living situation right now and it's cramping my writing style in more ways than one.
Wow, that looks amazing! That is my dream place to write. I agree that if you're motivated, it doesn't matter where you are, but it can definitely be easier to have a quiet writing space if you're someone who struggles more when things are chaotic. I'm one such person who writes better in the peace and quiet, so if I were you I'd go ahead and get that desk.
