2.14.2006

Did I Mention That I Got an Office?

I have an office! Back in January, during the 30 days straight of rain here in Portland, my basement writing space with zero natural light was making me feel very isolated, so I took the drastic measure of renting out an office space in the ActivSpace building downtown. The logic was that being downtown in a building with lots of artist types would give me an opportunity to make some connections.

Well, I've been here a month now and haven't ventured outside my door. Still, the natural light rocks...

5 Comments:

Anonymous Annie said...

You never did mention that you got an office... What about the house?

14 February, 2006 17:10  
Blogger Mike Ryan said...

I'm jealous of the office. Big time. If you're still in need of writing inspiration I found the following helped. This is also me plugging my blog:

premeditated

16 February, 2006 16:09  
Blogger Mike Ryan said...

You know, I think this article might be more inspirational.
After the First Draft

And did you know about this?
Writer's Resource

21 February, 2006 14:48  
Blogger bigdumbjim said...

Mike,

The After the First Draft article was very good. It's always cool to see someone else articulate how their drafting process went. I particularly liked the line "This was especially the case with Company, which I initially had trouble finding my way into, then was visited with a succession of great new ideas that required rewriting major sections."

That's exactly what happened with VMP, only I hadn't articulated it that way yet. It's easy, of course, in retrospect to define what happened while you were writing a novel, but when you're in the middle of it, dealing with the minutiae of a days worth of work, all you can see is muddle.

22 February, 2006 13:25  
Blogger bigdumbjim said...

Writers Resource is also a good link. Thanks.

22 February, 2006 13:26  

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