[stylist] Do you have a writing place?

[Shelley Alongi]

I never had anyone ask me what I was doing when I was using the Perkins because I never did any writing out in public and the only time I ever use the Perkins in public was in class and then they all knew what I was doing. So no never had anyone ask that question. :-) Technology has certainly come along way since then. I don't think I ever really had messy papers but I don't remember I didn't keep the original copy of that novel that I wrote using the Perkins. But I still use one at home or use it for labels. Or use this late also but generally I use that when I'm out when I write things down but I don't use it at home so much and right now I don't use either of those for writing. If I had to I could and that would be the fallback plan. I have never generally jotted things down for ideas about writing I guess they just kind of store in my head. Besides it takes too much energy to write them down easier to remember them at least that's how it works for me.

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> On Feb 16, 2017, at 7:11 AM, Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Shelley and Barbara,
> I admire both of  your use of the Perkins Brailler to write. I use one for math but could not imagine using it for writing because I like the convenience of being able to delete whole pieces of text without having a messy paper. Did either of you have people asking you what you were doing and, if so, did you stop to talk to them for a long time or try to get back into the "writing zone" as quickly as you could?
> Vejas
> 
>> On Feb 16, 2017, at 00:08, Shelley Alongi via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Well, I have several writing places. They are indoors because I've thought about writing outside but I get distracted by everything that's going on out there. I am like Barbara I used my Perkins Brailer writer when I was in high school. I have a complete novel that I wrote on one of those and I have a copy of it somewhere on a tape recorder that for me. I did not keep that copy although I did type it so I have a print copy of it somewhere. But it's such a plagiarized work I would you have to completely re-write it. I can do that. :-) Anyway, my current writing place is either my dining room table next to a window or the desk in my office. So it's not very original but it's quiet enough around here that I do not need to seclude myself. Sometimes I take a table into my living room and yes it is a table not a tray or one of those rolling desks or anything it is a folding portable table that you can adjust the height of and I spread out all of my writing things on it. That's usually my computer and a calendar or sometimes my phone because I'm using both for notetaking in whatever. Anyway, I take that and set it by the couch and have the TV on low and I right there it depends. Mainly I write in the kitchen. I do like to have music in the background and there is an app called Abiding Radio which has instrumental hymns and it peaceful that it does not distract me. I will also put classical music in the background. And of course my cat has to sit with me and help me write. Well she just lays there and tries to keep me from writing sometimes. :-)
>> Manley she just lays on the table and lets me do my work. She is good that way. So my writing spots are not original but they work and believe me I have been writing a lot lately. I will write the scene as I see it and then I go back and fill it in if I think it needs work. I cannot write a story or a novel in a week. It takes three or four months once I have the idea and I am going to finish it. I do not use a tape recorder or a digital voice recorder to keep ideas. I have always said I'm going to do that but I don't do it. What I do is even if I'm not sitting down in physically writing the book or the story I'm thinking of it in my head. And then when I sit down and write if I'm not going to finish a scene at a specific time I am beginning to write notes on my manuscript that say things like describe campsite or I outlined it right at the end of a chapter because keeping an outline for me and a Single place does not work so I outline where I need to write things. So that is pretty much how I  writing in the same place. That place changes for me. Well, now that I have talked about writing, it is time to go read. :-) Since publishing novels I have a greater appreciation for the craft and I am always looking for ways to improve. The best advice I ever heard was to be a better writer, read.
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