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Eric Kobb Miller and His Writing Space

When I retired as a dentist, I laid down my drill for a quill to pursue my lifelong dream of writing. After swimming upstream in saliva in a dark, confined space, for so many years, I was eager to find a writing space that was bigger, brighter, and dryer.

I found it in a nondescript neighborhood on the other side of town. It gave no signs of warmth or welcome. Peeling paint created the illusion of a pock-marked exterior, and the unlit neon sign in the window pushed me away, rather than...

Angie Werren and Her Writing Space

where do I write?

I'm not a writer. I'm not a poet. I'm not a photographer. I am none of these things but here, on this page — words. there, behind my closed eyes — a photo of where I am, now. here, in this chair at this table in this little room in this tiny house in ohio. here, where I grab that pad of paper to pin down the words in my head before they fly, before they become just another sentence in just another day.

this is where I write.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here now, in this house. I walk through its...

Van Reid and His Writing Space

Dark, red, sometimes noisy. These are words I could use to describe the place where I write. The library, my study. Dad's room to the kids.
There's the dark. I make excuses to people who visit, if they ask to see my study. The shades are pulled, the walls are relatively dark, the wall to wall, Persian-type rug is dark as well. "I'm a bat," I say. I don't know why this is so. I don't care for direct sunlight, except on a cold winter's day. I'm a nighthawk. I'm a bat. I darken the room, pull...

Guest Post – Deb Scott and her Writing Space

I commute from my day job to home on public transit. Bus poetry is one of my favorite mediums in which to write (yes, I do wish you would conjure a turbaned woman telling you the secrets no one could possibly know) because it compels me to do it — to write, to doodle, to think — no matter the (many) distractions of noise & movement. (I am of a certain age that didn't grow up with ear buds. I have always needed quiet to create. Until recently.) Everyday-people are enormously interesting ...

It is Official

Actually, I shot the following across the bow of Twitter-dom last Friday: "It are Offishial! I iz a Kolkedge Stewdent!"  This brought a couple of Twitter Guffaws, but was generally met with the silence it so richly deserved.  I was less sophomoric on my Facebook page and got better, more measured responses (except for the one telling me to take it easy on the C0-Ed's.  I mean, really now…who calls them Co-Ed's anymore?)

Yet, Friday was an auspicious day.  For the first time since January of...

Guest Post – Kelly Letky and Her Writing Space

From where I sit

I have a studio. I spend most of my waking hours there, designing printed pieces for graphics clients, making jewelry, writing, running two businesses and interacting with the world through social media. It's a tiny room in a tiny house that has no room to spare, but I work from home, and this room has become my space. I make my living here, I nurture my soul here, I toil and while away the hours here.

Two years ago, I took this space from early-garage-sale-cast-off to...

Guest Post – Elle Robb and her Writing Space

According to Virginia Wolfe, I am halfway there . . . she says that in a woman needs money and a room of one's own to write fiction. I've finally got a room of my own. All I need now is money!

I'm fortunate to have a room of my own – it is my favorite creative space, the room I refer to as my scrap room (my husband calls it the bat cave . . . I like to think it's because of the identities I take on while in there, but I'm afraid he may be saying I'm batty).  We emptied out our spare bedroom...

The Kindlegraph

I cobbled together a poetry collection earlier this year.  Originally I only released it in print.  The thought of releasing it as an eBook never really occurred to me, but when somebody requested I do so, I did.  It was an interesting learning experience, if nothing else.  The collection is now available as a Kindle eBook from Amazon.

Somebody on Twitter asked me if I could autograph their Kindle copy.  I thought that was amusing, chuckled and demured.  I knew the question was asked in jest, ...

Guest Post – Collin Kelley and His Writing Space

My writing space is a nook in my apartment in Atlanta. I've been in this space for more than five years, so it's comfortable, familiar and where the majority of my writing takes place. I've learned to economize, so everything is within reach – pens, paper, printer, file cabinet, and the many, many, many books I've collected over the years.
The most precious books are an autographed copy of Anne Sexton's Book of Folly, a copy of Margaret Atwood's collected poems signed to me in Paris and a...

Guest Post – Natasha Head and Her Writing Space

When this question was first posed to me, my automatic response was, where don't I write? My head throws together poems to deal with heartbreak, limericks to deal with conflict, short stories to handle the unknown, and grand sweeping songs to honor good times. Not that I always carry my notebook, not that I always remember the words it puts together, but it is the biggest coping mechanism I have for dealing with this sometimes overwhelming world.

I am, as well, a creature of habit, and I do...