Essential Items For Writing In A Cafe

A café writer doesn't need much in the way of equipment.

Essentials:

A laptop or smartphonea program to input your wordsa keyboard 
In the photo above, notice the napkins under my cup. I lean my iPhone against the cup while I type and the napkins keep it from sliding off.

If you’re totally offline, as William Faulkner said, all a writer needs is some paper and a pencil. Anything more than the essentials is gravy and we’re tramping in the territory of luxuries.

Offline Essentials:

PaperPen or p...