I'm really curious for feedback on whether where you are writing has any effect on your writing?
Through the years, I've had various favorite places to write. I was thinking of them over the weekend and it occurred to me that my most productive writing places always faced outward either toward a window or out into a room. Whether it was the coffee shop I wrote in while my daughters had dance class (facing a window) or the makeshift office I created in the laundry room a decade ago (also facing a window), I seem to need open space ahead in order to lose myself in my story.
The problem with that is my desktop computer is in an enclosed office where I'm facing a wall. No wonder I'm always looking for outside wallpapers for the monitor.
Lately my most productive work has been early in the morning sitting propped up on my bed - looking outward into the room. I thought maybe it was just the early morning, but I got 1700 words written in an hour this afternoon in that same place.
I'm starting to think there's some psychological link here. It's almost like the wall behind my computer symbolizes writer's block.
Imagine how productive I could be if I had that beach desk?
Nah, I'd probably daydream all day.
What about you?
Where do you write? Does it matter to you?
