Sunday, May 20, 2007

Where to Write

Yesterday, Candy Gorlay blogged about Stephen King and all the places one can read (with amusing pictures too).
As for writing a lot, Scary Steve says a writing room "only needs one thing: a door which you are willing to shut".

I commented pointing out that you need something a little more than a closed door, you need to be cut off from distractions, because writers get easily distracted. We'll even (attempt to) vaccuum our cat if it means time away from writing. Yes, we do frequently try to avoid the thing we love most, the thing that is our lives and our jobs, it's what we do. So I've made a list in response to Candy's post of all the places you can write in your house without being distracted.

Your bathroom tub!
Under your desk!
In your car in your driveway (with the radio off)!
In the storage room!
And my fave, in the closet!

Seriously, take your laptop into the closet, turn on the light, close the door, and start writing!

April 2007 Reading List

Title--Author--Pages--Dates--Acquired

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles Vol 10; CLAMP; 192; 3 April; Borrowed from Chris
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles Vol 11; CLAMP; 192; 4 April; Borrowed from Chris
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles Vol 12; CLAMP; 192; 4 April; Borrowed from Chris
X-Factor #17; Peter David; 32; 4 April; Own
Clamp School Detectives Vol 1; CLAMP; 201; 4 April; Borrowed from Chris
Clamp School Detectives Vol 2; CLAMP; 196; 5 April; Borrowed from Chris
Clamp School Detectives Vol 3; CLAMP; 192; 6-7 April; Borrowed from Chris
Man of Many Faces; CLAMP; 192; 7 April; Borrowed from Chris
Duklyon Clamp School Defenders Vol 1; CLAMP; 192; ?; Borrowed from Chris
Duklyon Clamp School Defenders Vol 2; CLAMP; 192; ?; Borrowed from Chris
Keys to the Kingdom #5: Lady Friday; Garth Nix; 304; 27 Feb-22 April; Own
Man of Many Faces Vol 2; CLAMP; 192; ?; Borrowed from Chris
X-Factor #18; Peter David; 32; 24 April; Own
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #18; Peter David; 32; 25 April; Own
An Abundance of Katherines; John Green; 256; 25-29 April; Library

15 books by 4 authors with a total of 2589 pages which is 263 pages more than in March. This is still 1056 pages less than January, but that month is going to be really hard to beat, well, July shows a fighting chance with the books coming out around then. We'll see.

Review of John Green's An Abundance of Katherines will be up soon.

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