[stylist] Do you Have a Writing Place?

[Lynda Lambert]

Hi Vejas,
I enjoyed reading about your writing place - sounds cozy and social.
Do you pick up ideas from conversations going on around you?
Do you grasp bits of dialogue you can use in what you are writing?
Do people ask you questions or wonder what you are doing?
I would love to hear more about your process and how it works for you when 
in a Starbucks.

When I had vision, I used to write as I was traveling a lot. I wrote while 
riding in  trains, busses, planes; I wrote in public places and everywhere. 
That is because I wrote in journals all the time. Later, I had the raw 
material that I could review and pull on to expand the pieces into poems or 
essays.
Most of the time, I also did drawings on those locations to firmly set a 
visual notation in my mind from that place. Later in my art studio I created 
art work from my impressions and I did writings based on those same 
notations in my sketchbooks, and even wrote poems and essays from the art 
works I created. I always had a studio as a base in my travels. I lived in a 
small Alpine village in Austria during the summers, and then traveled to 
other countries on weekends. But, my home base was a physical studio in the 
village where I lived. My first book was a collection of works from those 
summers of gathering images, conversations, historical notes, etc..

For the past 10 years, everything has changed, since sight loss. I can no 
longer write in journals and I do not have a laptop so writing on-location 
is no longer how I work. I still miss, very much, the physicality of writing 
by hand in a journal or sketchbook on sheets of pristine paper. I miss the 
feel of a book in my hands, the smell of the ink or the touch of the slick 
sheets in the book. I had to relearn how to be creative with an entirely new 
instrument- a computer. I had to learn how to view the world through a new 
lens - not my eyes, but other senses and new techniques.

These days, I write in my writing studio in my home. It is separate from the 
rest of my house, very private and secluded.
This space is where I write my poems and creative non-fiction works. I 
require isolation to do my work. Often , I have the radio on or play CDs in 
the room beyond where I am working, but , otherwise I do not want any 
interruptions.
I also have to begin writing in the very early morning - often at 3 or 4 
am - if I do not get started by 8 am, then I won't be writing at all that 
day. I think best and am most creative  and productive in the early morning 
hours. I usually wake up with new ideas or imagery and I have to get to it 
right away or else it may be gone forever.  I use my Milestone to make 
verbal notes on ideas I want to work with, at times. I imagine if  I was out 
somewhere and wanted to take notes about things around me, or 
conversations,etc. I would use my Milesotone.  I have found the perfect 
place and situation for this part of my life.
Lynda



-----Original Message----- 
From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 3:21 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas
Subject: [stylist] Do you Have a Writing Place?

Hi,
It's been a little while.
I have been doing much more writing recently. I  sometimes write in my dorm, 
but have found my favorite place to write is my school's Starbucks. It's 
also a great place for catching up on other things. I really like it because 
I'm often on my own in a table but still amidst other people. I'm not really 
a coffee drinker, but love their steamed milk.
How about you all? Where do you love to write the most?
Vejas
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