The first write with pen/paper happens in my easy chair with a clipboard as a desk. The second draft happens while at my computer desk in the 'library.'
Right now I'm in the garden, in glorious late September sunshine. Such a change from yesterday, get it while it's hot!
I have a nice grey armchair in my bedroom that I sit in all the time! It's where I write now (I write on my laptop). It's new, so before I had that I used to write in my bed, propped up by this big purple cushion thing I have. I'm all about comfort I NEVER write at a desk unless I'm handwriting in my journal.
Most of the time sitting with my laptop in my La-z boy. Occasionally in coffee shops where I some time eaves drop on other conversations for inspiration. Fairly recently I was near a table where a flat earther was ranting about the 'evidence.' Good stuff.
I have a desk in the corner of the great room where I work. It works out pretty good because I have my printers on a piece of furniture called a "secretary" behind me, that holds paper, and other writing stuff. Since I print and bind my own books, my kitchen table houses those tools. It is kind of sad because I live by myself, so all the bedrooms are unused. I usually eat at one of the islands in the kitchen, sleep on the couch, and store my clothes in the linen closet in the bathroom. I would say 80% of this house is completely unused. I say all that because I am thinking about building a cabin up in the woods next summer, and honest-to-goodness living out my remainder days as a hermit. I could easily see myself being one of those guys that write novels, mutter to themselves and have the mean dog that keeps everyone away.
I write at my desk, in my office room in the house, on my desktop MacMini computer—complete with wired-in Ethernet internet access, printer, Formac Oxygen monitor, and all the trimmings. I have all my research materials to hand, my chair and desk are suitable and comfortable, etc. I also have a MacBook Air laptop for when/if I need one, but I never write on it. I find it uncomfortable to use—HATE a flat keyboard—and can't be arsed with the whole charging-up palaver. However, I would probably have done a bit of writing on it years ago—before I retired, and was still going on holiday to the north of Scotland for a week or two every year. Like a mobile phone, a laptop is great if you're living the kind of lifestyle that keeps you out and about for most of the day. (Which is what laptops were originally designed for, by the way.) But now I'm retired, and stay at home most of the time. (By choice, until this Covid thing hit us ...now it's pretty much a no-brainer.) My husband has a roomful of iMacs, so he's happy as well. We share the laptop, when needs arise.
In the woods. On a park bench. On the balcony. Anywhere but inside! Doesn't matter in the slightest what temperature, if rain or sleet, if my fingers get stiff from cold or I shelter under an umbrella; as long as I have fresh air around my nose, the words flow.
I have a laptop for this reason. I can bring my laptop to work, and do work/novel writing as the ability arises. It's been slow at work with no kids there, so I will work on my novel sometimes. Its wrong in a lot of ways, but half the staff there watch YouTube Videos, so I do not feel THAT guilty. At least I am doing something constructive.
Currently, I really just write on my bed. Occasionally, I write at my desk, but it's in front of a window and whenever I'm in front of a window I can't resist just staring into space. I can only really get anything done sitting there when I'm particularly excited and focused. So for the majority of time, just sitting on my bed. I'm lucky that I'm flexible, so I can do that. I would love to work outside, but my laptop is also very old and immediately drops to 0% battery and dies if I unplug it for a single minute, so my movements are limited to about a six foot radius.
I just posted something similar to this in the What Do You Use for a Desk thread, but I write on what used to be the dining table. I say "used to be" because it's covered in too much crap now to facilitate dining. I tend to thrive in a chaotic environment (it's an ADD thing,) and my table is an irreconcilable mess.
I do my writing anywhere and everywhere, often while trying to cook breakfast, and then I have to run into the studio and type it up before I forget.
Not saying you have to write at the kitchen table, but there are lots of great things that can happen on that surface. The possibilities, man. LOL
Interesting followup... So we've been in our new house for like 8 weeks or so, and my office was originally in a small downstairs room abutting the living room. After about a month, we switched it up, taking my office to the spare bedroom upstairs and turning the former into a sunny plant room that looked much nicer off the living room. Then a couple of weeks after that, we swapped the living room with the dining room to better accomodate the dining room table. Meanwhile, my office upstairs has largely gone unused as I've been hanging out in the library downstairs, which has built in bookshelves, a gas fireplace, vintage lamps and things, and my new power recliner. Of course, I haven't actually written anything anywhere yet, so I have no idea where I write.
I've looked into an off-the-grid-living-in-the-woods lifestyle. My lover and I sort of made a plan for it. I'm not saying it will happen because plans change and all. But is there some reason why writers are drawn to the woods? My lover's not a writer, but somebody's got to chop the wood.
I've recently taken to writing at the kitchen table. If I keep my notebook on there I find myself writing when I'm waiting for food to cook, the kettle to boil and things like that. I also like sitting on the sofa to write. As I work away from home a lot my location changes frequently and I enjoy writing on the plane too. But what I really love to do is write outside, especially leaning up against a big old tree or beside a river, with the sounds of running water and birdsong.