I’m jealous that you had the ability to “drop in the zone” at a moment’s notice. My current lifestyle has many free odd moments, but the concrete blocks of time are hardest to schedule. More often than not, I make notes in my journal in odd moments, but then when I go back to them they make little or no sense.

I just found your blog and thankyou, thankyou!

I am/was an academic, and now … an aspiring writer, albeit previously published, as a ‘ghost’! I struggle to write now, or ‘rebegin’ my writings. I dream of the day of transforming the nearly 15 years of journals into something worth reading.

I read stories and novels in my dreams - and I think with surprise, ‘hmmm, if I just “read that novel in my dreams”, this must mean I wrote it too!!”

Yet I procrastinate and talk about it, plagued by perfectionism and writers blocks - but, then again, do I even get to that ‘block’ phase! Much of my procrastination or escape is, yes, through the ‘perfect’ setup of my writing ‘room’ and office/studio - my studio creation - which must be just ‘perfect’ in order to manifest the perfect creations!

Oh, the ingenious deployment of such procrastination tactics! Get over it and just write!

I truly loved and related to your article about writing for a ‘room’.

Thank you again … I am only ‘discovering’ the writing world online, and grateful to have found your site, as I have been held hostage (?) by the internet marketing realms…

… a freelance writer shall I be? A published author shall I be? who is to know, for now, just a shabby hobby hobby bobby blog! A PhD I do have - yet it maketh no difference … until I ‘bl… get head down and b.. up’!

hehe

Thank you. I have subscribed and hope to be back soon.
You are certainly a talented writer and I look forward to reading more!

Kind Regards
Megan (Meg)

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Sometimes writing faster with tons of distractions helps focus the mind on the moment. Some of the best writing I’ve ever done has happened under the least conducive of circumstances.

He’s been writing professionally for more than 30 years. I have been published once, in 1986 in Printed Circuit Board Design magazine. haha! He is astounded by how much I write, by the volume, and the quality. So, now that we’ve established that I’m no pro, I will say this…it is ALL about Butt In Seat With Fingers Typing (or pen-wielding). BISWFT

I know that the more I write, the sharper my skills, the better chance of publication.

Oh…and I think my secret for being unbothered by distractions is from the practice of meditation. If I work on it, I can be focused and centered within a tornado…which is a good way to describe my life.

Thanks for re-posting the video. It was a lot of fun to make.

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I write each morning in our office, so I have a room of my own I suppose. But the “desk” is a folding table and I write on a 13-inch MacBook (great) with no external monitor and, thus, am in a terrible ergonomic setup (not so great). Until I read this post, I think I had been pining for a better setup in our next house.

And now that I’ve read this, I think about the short stories I’ve written here, and the progress I’ve made on my novel and am realizing that it was, in no way, made better or worse by the ad-hoc setup in my room. All that matters has been the writing itself. That’s good.

Thanks for the great thoughts.

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