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    Aesthetics question.

    Hi! Hope this is the appropriate board to post this question.
    I am wondering if anyone has a certain place where they write? I know students are often encouraged to have a work space, but in the age of wireless device, sitting at a desk doesn't seem to apply to most writers anymore. Obviously, this would depend on how you write (desk top, laptop, pen and paper) etc. Just curious! I am currently chained to a desk with a laptop since the battery doesn't hold a charge anymore and must stay plugged into an outlet.
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    I'm at my desk, too, but only because I'm studying for exams.

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    I write perched on my bed, in more ways than I can possible elaborate on. Occasionally, when staying at my grandfather's house, I'll write on the coffee table, sat on the leather sofa. The chief reason why I avoid writing on a desk is very simple: I don't have one. I'd kill for a writing bureau, facing out of my window. I imagine productivity would increase.

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    In my head - It's very portable and the batteries haven't run out yet...
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    For me it's wherever there's a computer. I don't have a note for my story that isn't digital.
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    Just as a matter of idle curiosity, I am interested to know what you think Aesthetics means?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bloggsworth View Post
    Just as a matter of idle curiosity, I am interested to know what you think Aesthetics means?
    It's understandably confused with the similar, but altogether completely different, 'arsethetics'; the search for the most conveniently comfortable resting place for one's gluteus maximus.

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    At home: the couch
    At my grandmother's in Georgia: a chair in the living room
    At my grandmother's in Florida: the chair
    At school: a spot close to a socket in the student lounge
    At church: either the Youth 2, Youth 3, or College & Career room close to a socket

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    It seems I did misuse the word. I meant it in the context of your chosen, most comfortable surroundings for writing. My apologies. I would change the title post of this thread, if I knew how.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikki View Post
    It seems I did misuse the word. I meant it in the context of your chosen, most comfortable surroundings for writing. My apologies. I would change the title post of this thread, if I knew how.
    Perhaps you meant "Comfort zone"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bloggsworth View Post
    Perhaps you meant "Comfort zone"?
    yes, that would be more appropriate.

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    I have a pretty nice place to write. It's an office with a desk for my desktop computer -- that I use mostly for work -- and another for my laptop that I use to write. I also have my guitars in there and I'm setting up a mini-studio recording area. I keep my antique camera collection in there too. It's not like a quiet sanctuary -- my wife and kids are in and out all the time, and that's fine.

    I also have a studio area in the finished daylight part of my basement. The plan was to use that as an office/studio when I was running my business at home, but I got another job before I moved everything down there. I plan on getting around to it fairly soon -- there's enough room for my little photography studio set-up and plenty of space to paint. I imagine I'll do most of my writing there -- then my office will go back to being a guest room.
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    Once in school I thought I had aesthetics, but it turned out to be chicken pox.

    As for where I write, one desktop, the Intel duo acquired last Summer, is installed on a desk at one end of my combo kitchen-library. The desk was specially built in a Mennonite shop at Spanish Lookout. My little Acer emachine desktop, now nearly a year old, is on a small table, also from Spanish Lookout, in my bedroom. All my bookcases, chairs, and tables come from Mennonite shops. Somehow they manage to have prime mahogany that no one else can get, and their furniture is not expensive. The old Pentium machine, running Windows ME, is on a non-Mennonite factory-made computer stand in the spare bedroom/workshop and is my archive machine. What's written on either of the other two machines is backed up on the Pentium as well as on Skydrive.

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    I'm of the opinion that habit improves production.

    Psychologically speaking, this is why many people are most comfortable sleeping in their own bed, and less comfortable in a new or foreign bed -- because they are used to familiarity.

    With writing, somewhere consistent helps. So, being chained to a desk due to your limited battery is, in my opinion, not such a bad thing. Think of that desk as your writing desk. : )
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    I carry a scribble pad - Occassionally I remember to use it. I wrote a couple of lines standing in Waterstones yesterday, I scribble illegibly on the Underground, quite happy to sit in Starbucks/Greasy Spoon/the front room/in bed/don't really care - Where you write is irrelevant, having a particular place where you feel enabled is just another variation of waxing the cat...
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