Writer's Corner

[talkingsoup]

The problem is that I don't have a writing space. That's the real reason I've been so clogged and "blah" lately in terms of writing. I have no space I can really do it in. Before when I was able to pull off like 6 hours of writing a day, I was in high school, which means I had winters here, and my desk wasn't quite so cramped. These days, I simply can't write in my room. By day, it's far too hot. By night, the light is poor, even with the overhead lights and two lamps. The desk is meant for a ten-year-old, not a college student. I could sit on my bed with my laptop I suppose, but again--way too hot. My room is actually the hottest in the house. It has a window that faces west, is upstairs (heat rises), and hardly ever gets a decent breeze.

Downstairs isn't much better. It's infinitely cooler, but the office is my Dad's--he's usually in there late-afternoon to evening, and when he's not, the boys are usually here and it's noisy. Same with the living room. The kitchen has way too much traffic. As for the family room, where I am now, it's absolutely wonderful to write here around now, when everyone's asleep--but with it being summer, everyone goes to bed at like 3 AM. Meaning that the TV is usually on till then, and I can't focus.

I don't really have a space I can call my own. I've outgrown my room. It just doesn't feel like my own anymore, plus it's horrendously difficult to work in. I don't really spend any time in my room except when there's lots of boys here and I need to escape. That and when I sleep.

I need a writer's corner, but I don't have one here. So what am I supposed to do? Grab these few hours I have to do my writing? That's just not feasible now that I have a job--I can't be staying up till 4 AM. Gives me hardly any time to write. It was perfect at college. I had a corner, a nook. I was separated from the rest of the room to some degree by the dressers and the bed. Julie had her own nook too, and it worked for both of us. I don't have anything like that here, and goddamn it, I want one. God but do I ever wish I had a basement right now, even with mice and spiders. I'd write outside if I could, except that LCD screens don't show up well in sunlight.

I want to write Mot. I really do. I picked up a book called Chapter After Chapter as per Julie's recommendation, and it's given me some ideas about how to fall back in love with Mot, how to immerse myself in it again. It's working to some degree, I mean, I want to write it again, but I just can't focus. I could get all New Age and say that I'm just not getting the right vibrations from my environment.

I guess I'll just have to deal with it. This house is too small--there's no place I can really find a real writer's corner for myself, so I'll just have to make do with what I have.

I can't wait to have more space at college again.

In other news, I finally started the next chapter of my fic, I've decide that I'm gonna drop the Kaz, Gecko, Kai challenge and just do Fox and Mike, and I've decided to set aside all the other major projects and focus on Motley Crew. Once I finish this first rough draft, I'll take a serious break from it. I'll go back to Penta. It's high time I actually finished something--and I mean finished as in, revised, edited, and submitted for publication. I know I've said that a lot, but I have to be serious about it this time. No more distractions, not even in the form of North or any of the others. It's time to actually be a writer.

Even if I don't have my own fucking corner.

Comments

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

Have you thought about maybe going to a library or someplace else outside of your home that's quiet and air-conditioned? That might work.

In other news, did you see this weeks novel? I think Betty's a young Candice, but maybe I'm wrong.

[talkingsoup]

I hadn't thought of the library...that might work. I just need to find out if they allow laptops and whatnot.

Last I checked it wasn't out! I gotta go see it.

[gurmpy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the not-having-a-place thing sucks hardcore. That was my situation last summer. I second the library idea--you have a laptop, so you're not at the mercy of their computer use time restrictions. Lucky dog... -grin-

I'm glad that book helped. It's a good one.

Floof. I feel inferior. Alliteration!

[talkingsoup]

Yeah, I love that I can carry Septimus around. I just don't like moving him that much because, I dunno--it just seems like it stresses him out. Like a cat or something, lol. See this is why you need a laptop! Weren't you looking into getting one for next semester?

I know, it really is. ^_^

Lol, alliteration! Don't feel inferior!