Here are some other comments I received on where people write.
I do best on trains or planes i think…being fully suspended, away from distractions
and with the desire to decompress…
Like you and most other scribblers, I write all the time in my head, but this is where I assemble it. Although I don’t write in coffee shops, I do fuel up with strong Java. I also operate using the advice of William Stafford, “If you get stuck, lower your standards, and keep writing.”
Airplanes and hotels, sort of walled off from real life.
A friend wrote that Ernest Hemingway wrote in coffee shops.
For me it is all about the draft. The shitty first one with buzz all around be that a cafe, a library or anything else. All following drafts, or, whenever I know what I am doing and where to go, I need it quiet and quiet can be, coffee or tea or ginger ale depending on the season and definitely candlelight even when sunlight is flooding in.
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. -Virginia Woolf, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
Just wanted to say that I enjoyed your photos of where you write, since we must be neighbors, I love that tulip special park.
I am brand new at this but have found that when I can't sleep because my eyes are awake, but my brain IS a little foggy, if I get up, go somewhere with low light or write on a tablet, thoughts flow with very little judgement or immediate editing. I am trying to write about episodes in my life, and in a foggy state, memories, complete with original dialog, appear! My BEST success was on a ship deck with a full moon in the Mediterranean, but I don't see replicating that!
Here are some other comments I received on where people write.
I do best on trains or planes i think…being fully suspended, away from distractions
and with the desire to decompress…
Like you and most other scribblers, I write all the time in my head, but this is where I assemble it. Although I don’t write in coffee shops, I do fuel up with strong Java. I also operate using the advice of William Stafford, “If you get stuck, lower your standards, and keep writing.”
Airplanes and hotels, sort of walled off from real life.
A friend wrote that Ernest Hemingway wrote in coffee shops.
For me it is all about the draft. The shitty first one with buzz all around be that a cafe, a library or anything else. All following drafts, or, whenever I know what I am doing and where to go, I need it quiet and quiet can be, coffee or tea or ginger ale depending on the season and definitely candlelight even when sunlight is flooding in.
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. -Virginia Woolf, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
Just wanted to say that I enjoyed your photos of where you write, since we must be neighbors, I love that tulip special park.
I am brand new at this but have found that when I can't sleep because my eyes are awake, but my brain IS a little foggy, if I get up, go somewhere with low light or write on a tablet, thoughts flow with very little judgement or immediate editing. I am trying to write about episodes in my life, and in a foggy state, memories, complete with original dialog, appear! My BEST success was on a ship deck with a full moon in the Mediterranean, but I don't see replicating that!