Space

Ever since the recent demise of my computer, I struggle to find the perfect place to write. It used to be I could hole up in my room, put on some acoustic rock and/or mindless sitcom and let the muses do their work. Now, with no computer, I find the challenge of discovering the perfect place to write almost as difficult as the writing itself.

A computer lab is not the perfect place to write. From the incessant typing of everyone else but me to the creepy men in the corner covertly trying to look at porn, there are just too many distractions in the computer lab. Of course, there are as many computer labs as there are buildings on this campus but none of them are quite right. I do, on occasion, check out a lap-top and sit in the coffee house but again I am met with a sea of distractions. This time it is anything from the disconcerting indie rock (that I don't particularly want to listen to) to the yelling of drink orders behind my head. At least there are couches.

There is a certain comfort in having a routine, a place that is your own. (I believe Virginia Woolf writes on the same subject, no?) So maybe, it isn't writer's block that hinders my attempts at writing anything and everything, but a lack of space to call my own, my writing space.

What then, is the ideal? I wish I could tell you. Even for myself, I find that no situation is the perfect one. Someday, I would like to live in a place where I could have a room all to myself with a big comfy chair in the corner, a window seat and a desk. Walls must be blank. If they are blank, then I can make them into something. If there are things on the wall, then I'll get distracted.

Oh yes. And we mustn't forget the coffee pot.

Something like Writer's Block

Writer's block.
The dreaded phrase that we will all hear or utter at some time in our writing career. I think it is actually a sick turn of phrase. When I think of writer's block I can only see a brick wall directly in front of my face. writer's block permeates all parts of my life and soon I feel like I'm carrying this big brick wall on my shoulders.

Yet there is something that I find even more crippling than writer's block: something like writer's block. Instead of an actual block, I guess one could call it lack of motivation? (Although that just makes me sound lazy.) Usually with more than one project running it's course, I find it hard to just pick one. Yes, I know it isn't necessary to just pick one to focus on - thus the point of having more than one project going. But, It leaves me feeling unfocused.

So which project to focus on now?

Sunshine. Got it.