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Bar J Wranglers, blogging101, Creative Writing, Journaling, Mark Twain, Reflections, Writing 101, Writing Spaces
Mark Twain at one of his desks. Doesn’t look too comfortable to me!
We’re on our way out the door this morning to Jackson Hole, Wyoming for the weekend to see one of our favorite bands The Bar J Wranglers and have their famous chuck wagon dinner. But Opher over at Opher’s World left a comment this morning on The Art of Being Alone that made me wonder what are your favorite places to write!
So I’m leaving you a little quizzie till I get back tomorrow. Here it is:
Where are all the places you end up writing, which is your favorite, and why?
Don’t disappointment now. Leave me a comment! I will be missing you all!
Impromptu Promptlings 
Unfortunately, with my current work and home life schedule, I find little time to write anywhere… but when time is actually found, its in our family room with the TV blaring, Buddy (our overgrown pup) demanding attention, and our three cats making Buddy go crazy!
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Ah! There is a method in this madness! Use the cats to distract Buddy so you can sneak in a few line of writing! Well done!!! 🙂 Well we take whatever time we can whenever we can get it, right? 😀
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I write in bed every day for the duration of the first two cups of tea, then I relocate to the dining table, where my laptop stays for the rest of the day. I carry a notebook (the paper kind) and pen in my handbag in case inspiration wallops me while I am out. Writing in bed is my favourite because it’s the first thing I do every morning (apart from making the tea, of course!), and the ideas are still fresh because the rest of the day hasn’t yet intruded.
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…the ideas are still fresh because the rest of the day hasn’t yet intruded. That’s a really good point. I like writing in the morning, too, before I start whatever semblance of a routine I have that day. But it would kill me to write in bed!
So how are things, Susan? Have your furniture and things arrived yet?
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I’m fortunate enough to have a room of my own which I’ve turned into my study. It’s painted pink and it’s girlie-girlie like the bedroom I grew up in. It’s a place of contentment, with crammed bookshelves and lots of stuff that has special meaning for me. I am unaware of the passage of time when I am in here.
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I have a room converted to a library/sitting room, too (though it’s a sunny yellow and white), and I was that way for awhile until I started writing in the living room. I was amazed at how much freer I felt out here. I haven’t been in there to write since I started blogging last October.
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The chair, the truck, the winery, the office, during a therapy session. Why where is mor3e about where my head is at,
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I get that. That’s why I carry a little notebook around with me, though it’s just generally ideas I’m jotting down. You need to have your portrait painted while sitting at a bar deep in thought over a something you’re writing. It could go on the front of your first album. 🙂
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I would need to grin. 🙂
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Oh no! That would never do! You’d need to look serious like MT up there! (Though he was probably thinking about what an awful picture that was going to turn out to be. 😀 ) But you’d for sure have to have your hat on… 🙂 (And be rainbow colored…)
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They finally got here
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Give it all you got, boyo! {{{Plato}}}
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My favorite is writing on my laptop either while sitting on the couch or a reclining chair. I sometimes write on my desktop at work. I can write in the middle of almost any chaos as long as I have a comfortable place to sit.
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Spoken like a true, died-in-the-wool writer! I think that’s actually the most important thing for me, too. I have issues with my back, so if I’m miserable, I’m not going to be writinger very long.
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I usually write at my laptop, sitting at my desk/ dining table by the livung room window, but in between I write as I’m walking into town, or to visit friends and family. I get my best ideas when I’m waling, so I’m often to be see, strolling along an avenue, closely avoiding collision with trees, scribbling for all I’m worth. I’m probably considered to be eccentric, but it doesn’t matter as long as i can get my thoughts onto paper.
Occasionally I discover that I don’t have a pen, and I rush, wild eyed, into the nearest charity shop and ask if I can give a donation for one of the pens they have kicking around, then stand in there, writing like mad to make sure I don’t lose track of my words.
It’s quicker than going into a stationers and picking one out, then having to queue, and staff and volunteers in charity shops are more tolerant of odd behaviour.
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😀 Perhaps you ought to go buy you a little recorder to carry with you. I have one of them that I bought for interviewing people. It’s great for walking along and rattling off your thoughts. They hold HOURS of notes!
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That sounds like a plan. I may even have one tucked away somewhere, in my box of random electrical items.
Ha! Remember how we gigled behind our hands at people using mobile phones, way back? Now it’s fine to talk to ourselves in the street as long as we have some sort of electronic box in our hands.
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Well I like that a lot better than something hanging on your ear (bluetooth). At least people know you’re DOING SOMETHING and not just talking to yourself! Half the time you can’t see a bluetooth device! Hope you have one. I think it would be great for you.
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I dug my box of electrical stuff out, to have a look, but then I forgot what I was doing because I got distracted and sorted out my office area instead. I’ve put it all away again now.
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LOL! I wish it worked that way for me. My stuff would still be all over the floor. Hey! At least you got your office sorted. That’s a blessing! (Well, it would be at MY house! 😀 )
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Right now, (and for quite a long time really) I write at my computer station. I am usually in a snug little corner of the room, and a lot of time I’m up here alone, so it’s nice and quiet. Only on special occasion do I use a physical journal. I used to write with music, when I was journaling. But I don’t so much now, unless I’m looking for a specific atmosphere. When I’m Secret Spotting, I have a physical notebook and pen, and sit outside in the solitude and beauty of our back yard.
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Secret Spotting? You’ll have to explain that one!
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It’s a meditation. You sit outside, in a wooded area, or back yard. For about 20 or 30 minutes, you quiet yourself, and eventually, all the other creatures will begin to accept you as a part of the environment, and start to come out and just hang out. You begin sitting facing East, and after the 20 or 30 minutes, you open your eyes, and make note of what you see, feel, smell, hear, and taste. You turn to the South, and in each direction, you just jot down your experience of what is around you, and some passing thoughts, if you want. When I do this, I notice that I’m so relaxed, that when I went inside afterward, I took my bp just because, and it was way low.
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Sounds great, but I am SO not an outside person. I hate bugs!
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For some reason I haven’t yet managed to identify, I write straight onto my laptop on my dining room table. Occasionally I will scribble an outline or a couple of words onto a writing pad, kept by my laptop in case inspiration strikes, but mainly I type straight onto my blog. It seems as though keeping a blog has opened up my imagination and the words, such as they are, just flow.
I also have a diary, which I use mainly for work (paid work that is), and which has more than the usual amount of pages for notes at the back. If I’m out and about or at work when inspiration strikes I use that to capture my thoughts until I can get onto my laptop and put them into words.
Have a great weekend 😀
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Yeah, the journal beside the laptop is pretty much how I end up writing, too. i didn’t think I was going to like using the computer, to be honest, but I’ve found I can actually keep up with my thoughts much better on here. But I STILL keep my journal right here.
Ruth, I’m signed up to follow you but I’m only getting an occasional post. I was shocked when I got one the other day and realized you’d done several more since I’d been to your blog. I will have to check my controls again. Would you mind having a look at your followers list and see if I’m there? Thanks.
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Hi, just checked and you are there 😀 No idea why you aren’t getting notifications of my posts. I’ve committed myself to at least three a week – it is really helping me to get my thoughts out there as the muse strikes 📇
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Thanks for checking. I knew I had followed you. I’ll have to start coming over every day to see if you’ve written. It takes a while to get used to some sort of routine, doesn’t it… {{{Ruth}}}
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I write outside when I can, watch the dogs and let my thoughts wander off. I often sit beside my husband in the evening and pretend to watch TV for about 10 minutes, then I open my laptop and start writing or reading. TV just wasn’t invented for people like me 🙂 have a great weekend.
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TV just wasn’t invented for people like me. Oh! I SO get that. It’s just entirely too passive now that I’ve been blogging for almost a year. But his lordship likes me to sit with him for a time every night to watch something or other. I wonder if he’s figured out yet I’m chopping at the bit to get back to my chair in the living room and blog!
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See..that’s why they invented tablets and laptops 🙂
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I write anywhere, whenever the urge hits me. I have a Day One Journal on both my IPad and IPhone, this way if something pops up and I need to write, I can at least jot it down while I’m out and about. I have a beautiful leather journal that I write in at home. I’m usually curled up in my little corner, with a cup of peppermint tea, new age station on low. Depending on the weather, windows opened to let in the breeze and sounds of birds and seagulls….if it’s to cold, I’ll light some incense to set the mood……..
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Our writing rituals (when I’m journaling) are almost identical, right down to the candle and music (except, of course, the inspiration place where you live!). The only difference is I use a top-bound spiral notebook. I’ve got a blue million of them. Each is labled “From ____ to ____.” Takes me three or four months sometimes to fill one up if I’m not journaling my way through a book. Since I’m trying to do that on here now, I’ll be surprised to see how it works.
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Love this question and the comments it will generate! I write everywhere! Corner of the couch, bathroom, in the vehicle. There is always a small book in my purse and a pen. The one place I do not write is my kitchen table. For some reason, I like to have my body crunched over and hovering the paper. The table makes me sit up straight, the posture seems to inhibit the flow.?. Have a lovely weekend!
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The table makes me sit up straight, the posture seems to inhibit the flow? Now THAT is really interesting. Can you say more about that?
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I am so glad I have found you! Thank you for asking such insightful questions. They make me look deeper for an answer and I really enjoy doing that. ☺ I write from my gut, my knees are always bent whether it is paper or my laptop on my lap. I believe this focuses the energy more, channels it better to my fingers. There are no distractions, I cannot tap the table for a response, or glance around and let a chore to start to bother me. I can only hover and stare at my words, re read and edit if I feel like I am getting stuck. When enough of my writing energy has been dispersed, I can toss the book to the side and stretch out with a sigh of satisfaction. Thanks again! I hope you have enjoyed your weekend?
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That’s a fascinating observation, Kelly. There are times I feel like I write from my heart — usually the times I’m responding — but most of the time I feel like I’m writing from my thoughts/brain — reacting (?). The idea of your writing coming from your center like that is new to me and impressive. I’ll have to pay more attention to my posture when I’m in a zone somewhere!
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I like writing in my Garden, just the sound of the Birds the leaves in all my Trees rustling, I try to forget all the garden work that needs to be done and as soon as I put pen to paper it just flows. I have a beautiful Journal I write in which makes it even more special. What I write maybe to others would be rubbish to read but to me it all has meaning, the greater majority all true and perhaps a few made up that their content as my pen flows even surprises me. Its all due to my surroundings where just all the nature calms me.
Enjoy your weekend, safe journey home. Love, Anna.
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I like that idea of being surprised. I’ve had a few serendipitous moments like that myself over the years. I SELDOM write outside, however. I am a real bugaphob! I already told you I hate spiders… But I do like to write watching out the window. That’s when I let my mind wander. (Btw, I’m back. Had a great time! 🙂 )
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I write at home, sometimes at work (if things are slow), and sometimes at Starbucks on weekends. It’s funny but I feel more energized to write when I’m out of the house. Too many distractions at home I think (hubby, cats, TV, etc).
Have a safe trip GF!!
Luv Ya!
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The times I CAN’T write are when I feel guilty like I should be doing something else. That just shoots any creativity that MAY be hanging around, in the foot!
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