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    Saturday, November 8, 2008, 08:09 AM EST [General]

    Where do you like to write?  I like to write in bed with my jamies on and with my dog curled up at my feet warming them.  I could stay here all day even with the heaps of unfolded laundry looming like storm clouds at the edges of my bedroom.  By the end of the day, if I don’t move and keep writing except to get up to eat something salty then sweet, globs of laundry will have been turned over onto my bed, strewn about like unkempt children.  A frantic soccer player in search of a jersey or a ballerina leaping for a leotard will have thrown it there.  The dog will be happy when a fuzzy pink slipper sock lands on her nose, a prize waiting to be gnawed at.  I feel compelled to say that I am off carpool duty today; otherwise this blatant indulgence might be seen as abuse of my privileges as a stay-at-home mom who gets to write for fun all day.   Then again, someone else, maybe one of the other five people with whom I live and one whom I can be pretty sure loves me, could maybe fold the laundry.   (I’m wondering: is “whom” a dead word?)

     

     

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    I'm lucky enough to have an office (when there isn't a guest there!) in our house. It's got a desk chair at the desk, when I need to be seriously productive, a rocking chair for when I need to sit and think, and a futon for when I want company. Most of the time, I need a keyboard to do actual writing,and that means this room or sometimes (like right now) the laptop on the comfy couch.

    Becky Levine
    November 12, 2008
    11:17 PM EST

    Thanks for posting the Rilke quote. I love it, and the work it's from.

    Andy Lee Parker
    November 13, 2008
    04:27 PM EST

    Nope, whom is not a dead word. Maybe it will be soon, after I get through with it. I use it "to death" I'll probably kill it one of tehse days. I got so hung up on it that now I tend to use it inappropriately.

    Anyway, I write in my bed, too - unfortunately, I really have nowhere else to sit comfortably and write. I prop my laptop on my knees and type type type! Although I do need to change positions fairly often or my legs cramp. Sometimes, though, I get cuaght up in the flow and don't move even though my legs are screaming in pain cause I'm deaf to the world! I once had my knees just collapse when I stood up because I had absolutely no feeling left in them. Scary, but it made me laugh.

    Diane

    Diane
    November 16, 2008
    09:52 PM EST