Trying a new area to write....

I write all over the place. In my office when I must, but I love getting out of the house to write, whether it's the library, the park, out in the deep woods, or wherever. A change of scenery is always a good thing.

I have to watch my four-year-old daughter while I write, so my laptop is usually at the dining room table, but travels upstairs when she's watching a movie or playing a video game, to her room when she's in there, outside at times. I don't like to write in public--I always feel too self-conscious, which is bad for my creativity--and I don't feel a big benefit from moving spots.

But whatever works for you, works. Congrats on finding a new way to get things moving.

I like to write while sitting on the sofa or at my desk in my home library. However, I do like to write in several places.

The other day while my significant other was doing his two hour radio show, I was in the lounge area writing as I listened to his show (and could smile at him through the soundproof sliding glass doors).

I have written in coffee shops, libraries, restaurants, an old-time motel room veranda (which overlooked the ocean), and other random places.

I can write just about anywhere, which is why I have a laptop. The funny thing is, I'm LEAST likely to get any work done in my designated office space.

I generally write at my sofa in the living room but I do keep copies of my stuff on the Ipad as well so I can write anywhere. It's just that it's easier to take my writing time at night when I'm at home.

Switching locations worked for me in school and it works for me now, too.

I used to write anywhere. On the bus, on the couch, at my desk, in the cafeteria, a coffee shop, etc. There are places I prefer just because I can carve out a bigger block of time, but otherwise it's all the same.

I usually write at my desk, but every now and then I'll sit on the couch or in bed instead. Changing spots is really helpful when I'm feeling blocked.

On sunny days I follow the sun. Well, the sun can't be directly on my laptop or I can't write, but I need to be in a sunny room or see the sunshine slanting in across the floor. On rainy days I just find a bright window. I roam all over when I write, an hour here, two hours there.

I would definitely have a hard time writing in a cave.

I carry a notebook (you know - like spiral bound with sheets of paper?) and pens with me everywhere in case I find a moment to write, and also a digital voice recorder, and can write/observe or make notes anywhere, but the real writing and all the editing still happens at my desk.

COchick said:

I can write just about anywhere, which is why I have a laptop. The funny thing is, I'm LEAST likely to get any work done in my designated office space.

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Geez, I'm the same way. Anywhere but the desk. I like to pace a lot when I write, though, so I could be anywhere at anytime. That excludes anywhere public, though. I get excited and I get hyped up, so I try to keep out of the public eye.

Kelly - I feel too self-conscious to talk into a tape recorder in public. You don't have any issues with that? Or was it something you just learned to handle?

Tedium said:

Kelly - I feel too self-conscious to talk into a tape recorder in public. You don't have any issues with that? Or was it something you just learned to handle?

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Oh no! I'm too self-conscious for that as well. I'll bet I use it more often driving along in the car than anywhere else... that's usually when all the good ideas and when the poems usually come... so at least then I can pretend I'm just singing along with the radio. but I can't walk around in public and speak to it, they might think I'm crazy...

... but you know, that might not be a bad idea.

Usually I'm at the dinning room table, but I write mostly longhand so the notebook goes with me almost everywhere. I'd like to be able to write at my desk more, but it's small and kind of, um, piled with junk right now and my chair isn't comfortable enough. I also have this weird requirement that wherever I write I have to be sitting straight up or leaning forward slightly. If I'm leaning back, I get nothing done at all. (Wish I knew why...)

Ever since I bought a laptop, I've been almost obsessive about the place and time I write. It has to be in bed, with my lamp light very dim, late at night, usually around 11 or 12. Although, sometimes if I'm really hot on an idea, I do write a little earlier in the day/night. But it has to be in my bed. I'm weird like that, I guess. But that's only when I'm working on my novel. Poetry or short stories can be written almost anywhere, though I find it's better to write them by hand for some reason.