A (writing) room of one’s own 
A little while back, I stumbled across this piece at the Guardian Online. It looks at the rooms in which a number of British writers — past and present — have plied their craft. It’s an interesting mix of spaces, that’s for certain.
I have to admit that I’m partial to the rooms used by John Banville, Margaret Drabble (without the curtains, though), Martin Amis, Ian Rankin, and David Lodge. I can easily see myself working in any of those spaces, or a variation thereof. A good fantasy, no?
My reality, though, is slightly different. I don’t have a dedicated writing room. One of my laptops occupies a space on a desk in my basement, and my main one has a (fairly) permanent place on a table in my dining room. Since I use laptops, my writing space is anywhere there’s a place to sit — which could mean the living room, my porch, or my deck. All I have to worry about is having a power outlet handy to plug in when my battery is running dry. I’ve also been known to do work in coffee shops with wireless access and at a large public library, which also offers free wi-fi.
What’s your writing space like? Feel free to leave a comment.
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I wrote a whole blog on the subject back in January. You can read it here:
http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2008/01/writing-in-outer-space.html
At the end of it there’s a photo of my writing space. If you click on it then it expands to a decent size. And, yes, it usually is that tidy.