Hi writers!
What is your ideal writing environment? Is it in your home, or away from home? What does it look like? What does it smell like? What is your view like?
Are there other people around you, or are you totally cut off from the outside world?
And what is your writing space like in reality? Can you think of some ways to make your real writing space more like your ideal writing space?
In my writing fantasy, early March is when I emerge from my log cabin in the Wisconsin north woods after three months of furious writing and reading.
I'm as pale as white paper, of which I've filled hundreds of pages with sparkling, some might say breathtaking, prose.
I'm hungry -- or at least maybe a little peckish -- for human contact, because I haven't seen or talked to another person, and I've had no TV, internet, or phone. Because this winter retreat has been about one thing only: creating and consuming literature!
So, OK, the truth is I would last at best two weeks without going all Jack Torrance on my own ass. But hey, it's my writing fantasy and I can do with it what I want.
What my writing fantasy points to, I suspect, is a dissatisfaction with my writing reality. See, I can't seem to find a good writing space, neither in my apartment nor in public.
So instead, I fantasize about my ideal writing space. Do you do the same?
