Mar
Desktop Publishing
I used to have a big oak desk. It began its life in a heating oil company (I could tell because of the stickers and writing inside the drawers). When we moved into our current house, the only place it would fit was in the basement—in storage—so I gave it to my son-in-law. My writing/dressing room, a third bedroom, is small. I mean really small. There is a twin bed, my dresser, two stacking bookcases, and an ugly black folding computer table that belonged to my youngest daughter when she was in college. There are no drawers. There is no room for all the cute things I used to keep on my desk to inspire me. I need those cute things. I need inspiration. Badly.
I’m left with a dark gray beach rock with two veins of white, like a cross, that doubles as a paper weight. There are two pictures: one of my four kids at the
I’m always interested in how other writers jazz up their workspace. This is an interesting site. What’s on your desk? What little inspirational knick-knacks do you need?
My desk also acts as my coffee table. It actually is pretty neat that has that fold up desk ledge, that I can put away when I have company.
But, books usually scatter it along with drinks and food when I’m writing. I don’t usually keep anything on my desk that inspires me… it’s usually on my computer’s harddrive with pictures I’ve found and music I listen to for the WIP. Lately, for this Africa book, I’ve been looking and reading a lot of websites that helped inspire me. When I had my old desk (which I had to get rid of because it wouldn’t fit in my new apartment), I would keep up post it notes of a quote and blurbs about TACOM. If I ever lost track of where I was headed, I would look up at that blurb or the quote… so that helped definitely.
March 30th, 2008 at 8:59 amWell, until my laptop died, my writing surface was a wooden tv tray. I would sit at my recliner with the tv on, legs elevated. My love bought me a neat little portable lap desk, that allows the laptop to cool, so I use that too. I have no room for those cool little desktop articles. But now, I am writing at my husband’s desk, and it has his stuff on it. Since I’m used to writing without any for personal inspiration, I’m not worried about his clutter being a hinderance.
March 30th, 2008 at 1:00 pmMy desk is roaming since I have a laptop. We had a giant desk that took up too much space so we got rid of it.
March 30th, 2008 at 5:12 pmI have a writing chair in my bedroom that I have to fight for time on between me and my cat. I like writing in my room, it’s the only room in the house my husband doesn’t live messily in. Most of his clothes end up on the bathroom or living room floor… I’ve got art, music, books a bed for when I’m ready to crash. All in all, a pretty good writing place. But I wish WISH I could have a little room to go to and lock everyone out of, not that I don’t do that with my bedroom now… lol.
Tiff, I think even if I wrote on a laptop,I’d still sit at a desk. There would be a lot more room though for sure. My Dell monitor is a fat b*stard and takes up half the space. The printer and tower are on the floor.
Leigh, glad your husband can share! My husband bought me a recliner once, but guess who always sits in it? *g*
Ely, I supplement my desk space with a bulletin board. You know Ioan’s on it!
March 30th, 2008 at 5:26 pm