- Stans coffee shop, 1958; Hollywood!
So kids and kidettes, Monday’s nearly here again and we’re musing on this…
A thoughtful post on where we actually do the deed from fellow scrivener Sarah Brentyn at sarahbrentyn.wordpress.com.
Being guilty of clicking away in a coffee shop as we speak, I’m notorious for frequenting the joints. Much like this old black and white from Holly-weird yesteryear, hanging out in a space filled with the aroma of freshly ground grounds and all kinds of humanity prowling around near me is enticing.
Yet, does any work really ever get done?? Honestly, no! Too many sticky fingers grabbing too many sticky buns and too much caffeine never really helped my writing. Sure, the brain gets fired up and emails get answered. But actually novel chapters in a setting so noisy I can’t hear myself think?
NO! Never happens!
For that, I gotta go bury in a cubicle ten feet deep in the bottom racks of the school library, where the only people around are busy typing as fast as I am and in just as much mental misery as I am in some shape or form!
So. My question of the week is out there! I really want to know! Where are you when your characters do the dastardly deeds and you spicy pages germinate best???
Tell me all about it!
Please, barging is more than encouraged here!
And yeah, I can’t wait to give it a whirl!
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Sorry to barge in… I agree with Marina. Cemeteries are awesome places to write.
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Cemeteries….great idea!
Will give it a go, especially since Halloween’s nearly here! Could be great inspiration for a ghost story!
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I hope so too Sarah!
And thanks much for chiming in!
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I haven’t found a place…yet. And, if I wind up in a coffee shop, I think I will get mostly social media/blogging (IF that) done but not any creative writing. Way too distracting. Hope you get some answers. I’ll be curious, too!
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Like you, I can write short fragments (usually blog posts or bits of poetry or bits of dialogue) in a café setting, but certainly not novel chapters. I find cemeteries very conducive to writing, or some lonely bench on a footpath somewhere, with wonderful views.
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