{"id":1078,"date":"2018-11-20T19:45:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2018-11-20T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:55:41","slug":"writers-workplaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/writers-workplaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Writers Write: Inside The Workspaces Of 9 Famous Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does your writing workspace inspire you? Is it a place where you can shut out distractions? A creative fortress where you can dream up\u00a0and run with ideas?<\/p>\n<p>From backyard sheds to cabins in the wilderness, check out\u00a0where 9 famous writers go to do their work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">__________<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelpollan.com\/\">Michael Pollan<\/a>, author of\u00a0six\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller, including his latest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/A3RBU\"><em>How To Change Your Mind<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.grantblakeman.com\/media\/images\/pollan_cabin.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for michael pollan cabin\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pollan&#8217;s book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/Y7fe\"><em>A Place Of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is the story of how he built a tiny writing hut for himself in the woods behind his Connecticut house. As he writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A room of one\u2019s own: Is there anybody who hasn&#8217;t at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn&#8217;t turned those soft words over until they&#8217;d assumed a habitable shape? What they propose, to anyone who admits them into the space of a daydream, is a place of solitude a few steps off the beaten track of everyday life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Austin Kleon,\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author of three illustrated books, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/aYkJusg\"><em>Steal Like An Artist<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/austinkleon.com\/2011\/06\/11\/interviews\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinkleon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/desk-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have two desks in my office \u2014 one\u2019s \u201canalog\u201d and one\u2019s \u201cdigital.\u201d The analog desk has nothing but markers, pens, pencils, paper, and newspaper. Nothing electronic is allowed on the desk \u2014 this is how I keep myself off Twitter, etc. This is where most of my work is born. The digital desk has my laptop, my monitor, my scanner, my Wacom tablet, and a MIDI keyboard controller for if I want to record any music. (Like a lot of writers, I\u2019m a wannabe musician.) This is where I edit, publish, etc.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/cal-newport\/\">Cal Newport<\/a>,\u00a0author of five books, including the instant\u00a0<i>Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/i>bestseller<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/bcbyAY\">Deep Work<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calnewport.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/17\/ready-player-productive-on-virtual-reality-and-cognitively-demanding-work\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/calnewport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/library-640px.jpg\" width=\"501\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many writers swear by location-boosted cognition. I include myself in this category (the above picture is from the mini-library I built in my new house to support my deep work.)<\/p>\n<p>This shouldn\u2019t be surprising. Writers make their living almost entirely based on the quality of their thoughts, so they tend to care a lot about maximizing what they get out of their brain.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/\">Chuck Wendig<\/a>,\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> and <em>USA Today<\/em> bestselling author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/Cf60\">Star Wars: Aftermath<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/01\/04\/witness-the-power-of-this-fully-armed-and-operational-writing-shed\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7551\/16012333067_c5c221f52e_c.jpg?resize=700%2C467&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I call it the \u201cMystery Box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because it is a box. From which radiates\u00a0\u2014 well, who the fuck knows? It\u2019s me. Sitting in it. Every day. A mask over my head with a question mark embroidered upon it. Hammering out words, stories, characters, ideas,\u00a0all the expected nonsense.\u00a0Writers exude mysteries. Questions. Puzzles wrapped in enigmas wrapped in\u00a0crippling-self-doubt\u00a0and also, sometimes, ham.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/daniellesteel.com\/\">Danielle Steel<\/a>, author\u00a0of more than 169 books\u2014all of which have been bestsellers.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2017\/09\/danielle-steels-desk-is-unlike-anything-youve-ever-seen\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/59b83d92a0ab974b7f514cc1\/master\/w_900,c_limit\/Embed-02-1017-VF-5DES614-04_sq.jpg\" width=\"497\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The desktop is so crowded that, when I\u2019m writing, I have to take them off the desk until I finish the book.\u00a0On the walls of my office are framed covers of my books and sayings that I love. One favorite, since I work very late: &#8216;What hath night to do with sleep?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I had my desk made by some artisans about 25 years ago. They chose the colors and book titles\u2014I love it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/\">Tim Ferriss<\/a>,\u00a0author of five #1\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0bestsellers, including\u00a0<em><a title=\"Link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/oVoyk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 4-Hour Workweek<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2008\/09\/30\/rethinking-the-office-dutch-design-plus-pics-of-my-home-office\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fhww.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/2902249549_b385fa54c5.jpg?quality=80&amp;strip=all&amp;w=450\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My home \u201coffice\u201d \u2013 more like a Zen garden with a desktop than an office. The framed quote is from world-famous cook Bobby Flay: &#8216;Take risks and you\u2019ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It\u2019s that simple.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I design a workplace like I design any space: by association and positive constraints. First, I want positive emotional associations with each object within my visual field&#8230;Second, I limit misbehavior by limiting options. Notice that I have no shelves. This discourages accumulating papers and encourages both elimination and immediate digital note-taking.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>, award-winning author of the comic book series\u00a0<i><a title=\"The Sandman (Vertigo)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sandman_(Vertigo)\">The Sandman<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and novels including\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/KuoYG5\">Coraline<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/5ijNoBB\"><i>The Graveyard Book<\/i><\/a>.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shedworking.co.uk\/2010\/07\/neil-gaiman-shedworker.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gaimanshed-1024x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gaimanshed-1024x397.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gaimanshed-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gaimanshed-768x298.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gaimanshed.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I had the gazebo built about 15 years ago, and go through phases of using it, and then I&#8217;ll abandon it for 5 years, then rediscover it with delight. I love walking to the bottom of the garden, and settling down to write.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing ever happens down there. I can look out of the window and some wildlife will occasionally look back, but mostly it&#8217;s just trees, and they are only so interesting for so long, so I get back to writing, very happily.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/will-self.com\/\">Will Self<\/a>,\u00a0the author of eleven novels, including\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/Ameori\">Umbrella<\/a>\u00a0\u2014<\/em>\u00a0shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2007\/apr\/06\/writers.rooms.will.self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/originals\/3b\/7e\/53\/3b7e5322dd2ec3f3a2c535940d5ef689.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for will self office\" width=\"497\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I should imagine my writing room is very much as anyone would have envisaged it &#8211; if they could&#8217;ve been arsed: the wheel-scoured floorboards, the scaled-up desk, the council block through the greasy windowpane, the London map stapled to the blind.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t throw anything away. Anything. I&#8217;m going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash &#8211; yet I do not fear this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Julian Barnes, novelist and winner of the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Man Booker Prize\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Man_Booker_Prize\">Man Booker Prize<\/a>\u00a0for his book\u00a0<i><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/KJAP4\">The Sense of an Ending<\/a>.<\/i><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2013\/08\/25\/t-magazine\/25well-writers\/25well-writers-custom2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have worked in this room for 30 years. It is on the first floor, overlooking the tops of two prunus trees, which flower before they leaf, so that in a lucky year there can be both snow and pink blossoms on bare branches. The room itself has always been painted the same color, a bright, almost Chinese, yellow, giving the effect of sunlight even on the darkest day.<\/p>\n<p>The room is usually very untidy: like many writers, I aspire to be a clean-desk person, but admit the daily reality is very dirty. 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