Inspired by the lovely Cally Taylor, I’ve been looking around my office to see the things that have somehow appeared since I started writing. I don’t know quite how it’s happened, but my office has been occupied by Smurfs and geek toys. It appears that my office has become my nest and that it perhaps reflects my personality more than any other room in this house. At the moment, this is the only place in my house where I can write.
So, how about you? Where do you write? Or, where do you create? Do you have to have a clean and tidy desk/office or do you appear to be nesting like me?
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Don’t have any smurfs or geek toys, but the bits of lego are growing - creativity needs some hands on moments I always think. My desk is dominated by pencil pots, post-it dispensers and two sets of speakers for my music. My computer usually gets pushed to the edge as I like to write on paper first - there’s just something that clicks for me as the pencil translates my thoughts onto paper. So there’s notebooks and paper pads too.
My den at home, where I also write, is pretty similar only no desk, just an old fashioned library chair. Loads of notebooks - my wife is always complaining, but she bought most of them! So no boring pads, fancy notebooks to inspire the thought waves.
My starbucks thermal travel mug, ipod and cell phone usually completes the picture. So, on reflection I would say definitely a nest, clean and moderately tidy, but a nest nonetheless!
J
I have a Scooby Doo on a surfboard which I am reliably informed is a Happy Meal toy (it was given to me). It comes complete with a launcher, in which he sits atop my monitor base primed for action. At times of stress (or boredom), I can hit the release and fire Scooby and his surfboard across my desk-top sea of post-its. I am 37.
Kneeling in front of the laptop and various other bits of equipment and instruments, wires, plugs, leads and what have you - in the middle of what very rapidly becomes a very messy living room: less of a nest, more of an indoor garden shed.