Here is an early version of my work area.<\/p>\n
Today I sit in a small library located on the second floor of our home with a window that looks out on our tiny rural community. The bell in the Catholic church, across on the corner of our shared intersection, is calling its congregation to worship.<\/p>\n
If I move to the edge of the window, I can just see down the hill and across the valley.<\/p>\n
A friend, who was not a neat freak, once asked, \u201cIf a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what\u2019s an empty desk a sign of?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Today, I\u2019d be able to answer, \u201cPotential.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We\u2019re about to move to a new home, that means a chance to set up my writing space anew.<\/p>\n
J.K. Rowling said she wrote much of her work sitting in a coffee shop.<\/p>\n
Look up the names of your favorite writers and artists, see if you can find pictures of where they practiced their craft.<\/p>\n
If I had my druthers, I\u2019d be writing on a sailboat, in a cottage overlooking a large body of water, or a view within mountains. Baring those, I\u2019ll take a city apartment located up high and able to look out over the city and the streets immediately below.<\/p>\n
The bulk of Unfolding: Awakening<\/em> and Nexus<\/em> were written alone in hotel rooms across North America, Trinidad, and a week in Bulgaria. I was not writing fiction when I visited Singapore, though it was a perfect setting to begin the adventure.<\/p>\n
Walking into a new room and setting up shop is like putting a fresh piece of paper in a typewriter. In the early morning hours and in evenings, collected thoughts – which formed themselves while asleep and in quiet times during the day – flowed from mental caches through my fingers to be stored on a hard disk drive.<\/p>\n
My work is an integral part of me and did not require a lot of planning. On rare days, I\u2019d come back to the hotel with my shirt pocket stuffed (neatly) with special little notes that had specific details concerning continuity or plot development which would be transferred to Evernote<\/a>(tm)<\/sup> note files. I kept a few odd pieces of paper for posterity.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I\u2019d like to write in longhand. It\u2019s inspiring to see notebooks and handwritten drafts of authors. Should I be allowed to have enough of a following, I\u2019d like to leave something other than closely ordered arrangements of 1\u2019s and 0\u2019s that can\u2019t be touched.<\/p>\n
My world is moving too quickly at this point in life. I have to type it all in as fast as I can, so I\u2019m able to complete the other tasks that keep me alive until I reach the moment when I am able claim writing as my day job.
\n–\u00a0Jeffrey A. Limpert<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n__________________<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nCaption: Console station in the network room
\nA Place to work for a writer, network engineer and educational courseware developer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"