tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83198819958427713.post6147678893323736306..comments2023-07-14T03:20:44.318-07:00Comments on Sue Reid Sexton: Spring CleaningSue Reid Sextonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01673622749741066666noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83198819958427713.post-61016427908761334072011-12-08T06:34:14.294-08:002011-12-08T06:34:14.294-08:00Like the idea of Stravinsky's upright piano an...Like the idea of Stravinsky's upright piano and stool. Hemingway wrote standing up at a podium. I think Virginia Woolf did something similar. The most important part is, of course, turning up and keeping turning up and not worrying about the place you turn up to being in one particular way or other. I find changing location, kitchen table, sofa, cafe, borrowed house etc always helpful. It is also possible to think you're prevaricating when actually you're circling a problem and waiting for that moment when the clouds of confusion shift and it all comes clear. It's windy and the air is clearing.Sue Reid Sextonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673622749741066666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83198819958427713.post-69424264919416445102011-12-07T16:35:39.758-08:002011-12-07T16:35:39.758-08:00When Carrie and I were looking for a flat to buy I...When Carrie and I were looking for a flat to buy I placed two conditions on her: 1) that we should each have our own office and 2) no garden. Nothing else mattered and the first time I stepped inside the flat we now live in we’d bought it—I trusted my wife completely and we’ve been quite happy here ever since. I still have the office but when I fell ill Carrie bought me a laptop and I started working in the living room and never left. I like that the office is there with all its shelves full of books and its sense of order—not that it’s very orderly at the moment because I have a desk full of Xmas presents to wrap—but it doesn’t take much to restore order. She been encouraging me to move back in, not that she wants rid of me but she thinks it will be good for me to relocate to go to work, but I’m dragging my feet. I actually like having my wife around and work just fine with her sitting in her recliner pottering away on her laptop; we are a pair.<br /><br />I’m also dragging my feet starting my next book. I wrote an opening a few weeks back and then, as I did with my fourth book, sat on it not sure in what direction I wanted to go and terrified I headed off the wrong way. There are times I wish I was a plotter but I just can’t work that way. <br /><br />I always like to see where other authors work. It puts everything in perspective like the room where Stravinsky wrote <i>The Rite of Spring</i>; it contained an upright piano, a stool and that was it. I don’t even think there was a carpet.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com