OPEN SESSION: The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion

Welcome to OPEN SESSION:  The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion.

Moleskinerie invites you, our visitors to share your thoughts on a special topic.

Today it is "Where do you write?"

This week's topic was inspired by the ongoing series of features at the Guardian, "Writers' Rooms"

Above: Dr. David Starkey's writing room. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe© The Guardian/UK All rights reserved LINK

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Comments

[Sophie Brown]

"Because I couldn't stand to live just one life." I saw that somewhere and I wish I remembered, because that sounds about right.

[Sophie Brown]

Answered wrong question: I write in my living room right on top of everything else in the only room in my house like any other New Yorker.

[jribarra]

Anywhere that makes me feel like I am in private. Sometimes the most private place is in the middle of a busy cafe where nobody knows you and what you are going through.

[HR]

Everywhere! At home, at school, on the train, while waiting for the bus, while waiting for just about anything actually, in cafes, in bookstores... yep, everywhere I go.

[Johnny]

I've had a wacky spring, and I usually only get to write at work during my lunch break. That's sad. :(
(things are looking up though)

[Harry Dean]

At work, between tasks when people think I'm taking notes.

[Anthony]

Like most, I write wherever I am. This helps: http://www.travellingdesk.com/. It took me years to be able to write in public space, given that I am so easily distracted. But now I find some comfort in the white noise, availibilty of libations, and fodder for my notes. At home, I am very fortunate: I have an office about the size of a living room and has a full library of over five hundred books; it has a coffee bar, DVD player, fourteen manual typewriters, two computers and assorted writing ephemera. I get a lot of work done. My writing space has a futon for reading, plenty of files and magazines; pipes and tobacco, and every kind of writing instruement you can think of.
Annie Dillard, when she first started out, said a writer needs very little. Something to write with and something to write on. When I saw her in Houston a few years ago she told an audience of about six hundred people that she was wrong. A writer needs a warehouse.

[Mik]

If I'm out and about and overhear stuff for my blog, then I whip the Moleskine out and do it there and then. At home the wife and I have a spare bedroom set up as an office and have our desks near each other with our PC's a few feet apart which means we can spend time together and still do different stuff.

[Harry Dean]

Because moleskines are popular, I also write while at Starbucks and other coffee joints. I really don't feel odd while doing it either. Usually someone else has got the same idea. And you'd be surprised how many "great novels in progress" you'll be a witness inside a large Starbucks.

[JoHanna]

Wherever my muse takes me. I love to write outdoors especially in cemeteries.

[Kolby]

I've been writing quite a bit recently while I am hiking. As of now, I'm only keeping one journal: a pocket-sized Moleskine that occupies my front pocket on all of my hikes. As a nature lover, I tend to jot down things that will key memories later: weather, views, injuries, emotional state. Half of my writing is on plants and animals I see on the trail. I'll jot/draw the colors and shapes of birds and butterflies so I can identify them when I get home. For flowers, I'll either draw a small picture or snip off a bloom or two and press them in my book. I'll refer to one of my many field guides at home to identify them and write the names in my journal. This helps me to identify the flower on later hikes.

[Ali S.]

My usual places are in my bed when it's really late at night (like 3am) and I'm still up to putting my day onto paper for prosperity. And then there is my simple computer/study/work/eating table...where I slap on my big headphones put on some thought provoking music (Albinoni is great) and then scribble away.

[Jayne Elliott]

I have a desk in our spare bedroom that looks out over the garden and I love to find the time whenever I can to sit at the desk,open my Moleskine and record my observations on my day. By the way, am I alone in being unable to resist buying Moleskines, even when I don't need them? I currently have 4 large sketchbooks, 4 extra-large soft cover plain notebooks, 3 unopened packs of Volants in different covers, and a pocket size square notebook. (I feel ashamed to list all of them like that!) I know I will use them all in the end but do I have an addiction do you think?

[Marisa Wikramanayake]

I write in small snatches on the train or bus when something catches my fancy. The rest of the time, I write in bed, on the laptop, under two warm blankets with a heater and a boyfriend for a hot water bottle next to me who does nothing but read blogs and webcomics while I go tappity tap.

[Brian Byrom]

I have two rooms I use to writ in,in summer I write in the summerhouse over looking a beech wood. In winter I have a room that over looks the garden and the bird feeders, which prove to be a real distraction at times