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How can a writer write without a defined writing space? Catch as catch can does not work for the serious writer. Serious does not mean heavy hearted. Rather, serious refers to determined. And so a serious writer, whether for pay or not, can be light hearted. Yet, you are much more likely to be light hearted if you have your own designated writing space.
I have two writing spaces. One is my desk in my home office that has a great 10,000 lumen natural light to guide my pen. It gives me joy and peace to do my daily morning journaling there. It is also a place where I have written and revised a recent novel. This reminds me that I have a third space. My laptop computer, at its home destination on my ancient and well loved drawing table that looks through two windows onto the street with mostly pedestrian traffic. Occasional car horns and bus brakes can be heard as well. Still, mostly I write with pen by hand at the brightly lit desk, and embellish and do some revising at the computer.
My second favorite place to write is the local diner where I frequently go when I finish my non-writing work day. I hang out and read and write for hours. It's both a pleasure and a labor, but a labor that mostly comes easily.
The setting for writing is an essential part of the writing process. Not a frill. I have known what I refer to as nomadic writers. Writers who can set up their pen and paper, or computer anywhere. And for them, home is where their writing tools are. Still, for most writers, having a writing space they think of as their own helps the flow of words onto the page. It's simple to discover a place if you decide to have a specific location, two or three, to set up your computer, or sit with your pen and paper or notebook. It may even come to you on its own.
As a writing coach, I have worked with a number of writers who had not paid attention to having a special writing space as important to their writing output. Yet, once we talked about it, it became clear that they were in some way having difficulty getting the words onto paper just because they did not have a writing space. Once they created or discovered their space, words flowed.
Do you have at least one writing space? A space that's especially set up for you and for no one else? A space where you go to be in your writing world? Where the words that wander around in your mind come to life on paper? if you haven't already, why not identify at least one writing space? So when you're ready, when the words need or want to burst into the world, or simply when they insist on it, you're able to step into your comfortable writing space and let the writing process happen. Let the words slip into print.
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Source by Betsy Landau
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