Writer’s Desk: Don’t Worry About Your Desk

[image error]Writers get a lot of advice. Not just about how to write, but when and even where to write.

Fortunately, there’s Margaret Atwood. Rebecca Mead notes this about Atwood’s writing space in a recent profile:

Unlike many writers, Atwood does not require a particular desk, arranged in a particular way, before she can work. “There’s a good and a bad side to that,” she told me. “If I did have those things, then I would be able to put myself in that fetishistic situation, and the writing would flow in...