tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post3234229690920190664..comments2024-03-07T04:13:36.330-06:00Comments on The Storyteller's Inkpot: Where Do You Do What You Do?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-26558058814812299722012-08-24T23:05:58.272-05:002012-08-24T23:05:58.272-05:00I write wherever I can be alone. At this moment, ...I write wherever I can be alone. At this moment, my son is sitting behind me in the living room, but he's looking at his computer while I look at mine. Gilly the dog is at my feet, but he's snoozing and serenely farting away, so I'm almost alone.Jane Resh Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08799347884676690054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-30357409665286353822012-08-20T10:37:59.409-05:002012-08-20T10:37:59.409-05:00I had a writing office but lost that when we had t...I had a writing office but lost that when we had to shuffle rooms to accommodate the baby, so now my desk is in the corner of our bedroom. On the wall is our family tree, which is completely filled in up to our great-great-great grandparents. I have my writing books on my desk, as well as pics of my family when Dad was still with us, a pic of the Gang of Poets, who are the best people in the whole entire world, a pic of Dante's tomb in Ravenna that a friend brought back for me, and a picture of Harry S Truman working at his desk when he was still in the Senate, which is a little hint to myself that maybe I should be as industrious as he was. <br /><br />But the latest addition is a small bassinet next to my desk in which baby Stevie sometimes sleeps, and when he is I end up looking at the baby instead of my work. Well, I guess the baby is my work right now. <br /><br />It's good to have a little place of my own that's meant only for writing -- it gives the brain a chance to breathe. And I like what Peter said about making a safe place to write. As a parent of a new baby, my mind is full of all the ways the world can be cruel and awful, and how important it is to make a space -- for writing, for family -- that we can keep coming back to day after day.Melinda R. Cordellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924404257237523106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755502616289652010.post-89049956371898851652012-08-19T11:30:36.471-05:002012-08-19T11:30:36.471-05:00As part of her critical thesis on writing spaces, ...As part of her critical thesis on writing spaces, Jodi Baker sent out a questionnaire to dozens of writers. The first question was, "Where do you write? Please describe your writing space and what’s important to you about it." This was my response:<br /><br />I write at a desk in my bedroom. It looks out a window into my front yard and is flanked on either side by bookcases. It's also strewn with treasures. Some of the things I'm looking at as I write this: an inlaid sewing box made by my great-great-grandfather, a jar of agates, a piece of the pyramids, the Equation of Time cam from the Clock of the Long Now, a meteorite, a box of arrowheads, petrified wood from the Painted Desert (I'm a bit of a rockhound), glow-in-the-dark Silly Putty, a glass globe painted from the inside, a bust of Archimedes, and a blue dinosaur named Gus. I love these things. They remind me that the world is a strange and miraculous place, which is where I like to be when I write.<br /><br />Writing is the scariest thing I've ever done; I need to do it in a hopeful place. With books and bright colors and strange things, I remind myself that I love the world even more than I'm afraid of it. That pressing on is worth it.Peter Pearsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05680264754278143181noreply@blogger.com