MATCH YOUR SPACE TO YOUR WORK An obvious heuristic for constructing a more effective space for your work is to match elements of your physical surroundings to what it is that you’re trying to accomplish. Mary Oliver’s nature-themed poetry, for example, was well served by long walks in the very style of woods that she described in her poems. Oliver is not alone in seeking this symmetry. Many writers leverage the details of their surroundings to support specific properties of their work. When composing Hamilton, for example, Lin-Manuel Miranda wrangled permission to write in the Morris-Jumel
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