My Dream Office

Last night I had this really amazing dream that I was at a video game and comic book store with a friend of mine. For some reason I dream about video game stores and dvd rental places a lot. Anyway, in this dream the video games were all older games and they were displayed on the most beautiful set of shelves that I had ever seen. One of my dreams as an author has always been that I could get my own office with a beautiful bookshelf, where I could display not only my books but also the books that I love to read. I also would love one of those cool ink pens with a crown on the top, and some super nice work space for my desk. I would have a dry erase board in the office. I love dry erase boards, they help me when I am working on a novel. I would also have assorted artwork. I have never really owned any artwork, or had any artwork that I was in love with displayed in any of my homes. I guess that my dragons could count as artwork that I loved, but I also want artwork done by other people. It amazes me what other people can come up with and I have always been an art lover. I would also have some things in there which display my nerdy side. I love funko pop vinyls and had started to collect them. I had four of them Stitch from Lilo and Stitch was my first and Raphael from TMNT was my second and they would go in there for sure (the other two were the TMNT van with Mikey driving and Leo from TMNT, but I gave them back to my ex so I would have to rebuy them). I would want a few disney ones as well and some comic book related pop vinyls. I would get the ones from Supernatural and the Walking Dead as well. I would also make sure the office was very colorful. I love colorful things, they fuel my creativity. I would have at least one dog bed in my office because my dogs like to go wherever I am and I am sure they would want to be in the office with me. The dog bed would probably be pink because my dogs are girls and I also really like the color pink.

Favorite Places To Write

My favorite place to write is my desk. The pink and gold paint is familiar, and sometimes I find myself longing to sit at it and edit, or work on something new. I love the desk. Everything about it screams me, but sometimes I get writer's block. When I get writer's block it helps to go somewhere else to write. Sometimes I go somewhere as simple as school or the library, or a coffee shop. Sometimes I have to ring the laptop outside. I love to be around water, and would love to own a house by the water someday. I would pick a room with a large window to be my office. 

Background noise

It's raining outside. When I was younger that used to be my favorite weather to write to. A lot of people like to listen to music, but I just love the sound of the rain beating on the windows. Now that I'm adult, I have to write and edit whenever I get the chance. It's not as fun as just randomly writing while cars are zooming by outside in the rain. I don't listen to music when I write either, but when I do I keep the radio tuned to the Halloween channel on Slacker radio. I don't think I could write in complete silence, so I always have the tv on, usually on the syfy channel, like it is now. I'm sure there's a movie on about some giant cg monster, but I'm not paying attention. I'm about to open a word document and start editing, or maybe I'll open my draft about the grim reaper and add to that.

Treating Writing Like a Job, Because it is a Job.

When I first got into writing I treated it as a hobby (I was only in second grade lol). I think a lot of people still treat it as such. Something they do for fun. Writing is fun, but it's also hard work. You have to edit over and over again. You have to research. You can't just make someone a British solider without doing some research first. You have to sit at the computer, even when you don't want to, type out words until they make sense and then edit them. You have to force yourself to write when you have no inspiration. I remember an episode of Supernatural that featured Chuck. He said that writing was hard work and he would never pick that career on his own. I'm sure a lot of people didn't think about the comment, but writing is hard work. It is fun for a lot of people, but that just means you enjoy what you do. I enjoy writing, I don't enjoy editing. I enjoy making up new worlds and characters, but I do not view it as any less of a job. If anything, it's more work then my 'regular' job.

My writing corner

It's finally finished! Now my desk looks looks the way I want it to. I still find it pretty funny that this is the desk that I write about werewolves and zombies from.

Giving my writing space a little make over.

Above is the space I've been using to write about werewolves and zombies. It's not a bad writing space, but it's not me. The desk isn't me, so I bought some paint and sandpaper and I am currently working on painting it. I'll have to post pictures when I'm finished, but I may not post much until it's finished.