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What are five objects we’d find in your writing space?

Only five?

Like most people, I have pens and paper and books, a stapler, cups to hold the pens and so on, so I guess we’re looking for the less common things with this question.

I have what I call “The Bard’s Noose” hanging on one wall. It has an item indicative of each story I’ve written hanging on it. Even The Bard’s Noose concept itself comes from a story.

I have  a white pen tube with no pen, cut down to the length of a cigarette, because for some reason, working on one particular story made me desperately want to hold one in my mouth or fiddle with it in my hand, but I don’t smoke, and never have.

 

 

 

Taped all over my laptop and all around the walls and whatever surface I can use easily – reminders of this and that, with the biggest note screaming “RESIST INTERRUPTING!” because my “office” is a desk squished behind a couch in the TV room.

There’s a large blue sheet hanging from the ceiling, acting as a flimsy partition between myself and the TV. It blocks the TV, so it helps, somewhat.

 

 

 

And way up high on the wall, there’s a cheapy motivation “poster” that I made myself. I can’t actually read everything I’ve written on it over time from the distance, but sometimes I take it down and look at the words or add new ones.

I have no idea if this last one will actually buoy me and my writing in the days to come, but we’ll see.

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