Where is your creative space? If you’re a serious creative person, you need to find the place where you do your best work. In a coffee shop, in your bedroom, in the basement, on the patio – wherever your creative juices start flowing.
For me, I need complete silence.
My perfect location is probably a bank vault – no music, TV, email, or other distractions. My office is also surrounded with my books, so I have access to the information I need to create.
I was thinking about this while Kathleen and I toured the Charles Dickens Museum in London a few years ago. Here’s where a few other great writers did their best work:
Ernest Hemingway wrote at a stand-up table, shifting his weight from foot to foot.
Truman Capote wrote lying down.
Jane Austen wrote in her parlor, at a small table barely large enough to hold the papers she was writing on.
