Where Do You Write?

Some authors will tell you that there’s a write place and time for every novel they write. That’s the case for me, as I explained in a recent Write Place, Write Time.

Write Place, Write Time is a blog devoted to the place where authors do their work.

Although I can more or less write anywhere, when I was asked to write about the place where I do most of my writing, I realized that at least a part of every novel draft I have written has been created, in part, at the same pine desk that once belonged to my father.

In the piece, I write about the desk and some of the things we share: a Don Quixote statue from Nizhniy Novgorod, a candleholder from St. Petersburg, a pen made of wood from a desk of the mayor of the city where I was born … and lots of books.

In fact, I’m at the old pine now, making eye contact with John Steinbeck as I work on my fiction. Back to it.

Visit me and my desk at Write Place, Write Time. And tell me: where do you like to do your writing?

http://writeplacewritetime.tumblr.com/post/15775021415/eric-d-goodman

Write There, Write Now

Since beginning in an upstairs art room in the historic Patterson Theater back in 2005 (I know, I was there!), the Write Here, Write Now workshops have expanded to meet the needs of the growing Baltimore literary community.

Co-sponsored by the CityLit Project and with sessions at Creative Alliance in Baltimore, Howard County Center for the Arts, and Towson Arts Collective, WHWN is the area’s only on-going series of workshops for writers.

Now it’s back to school time — and there are several WHWN courses to consider. Whether you want to learn about marketing your work, tempt your writing palate with some poetry, get the ins and outs of self-publishing and do-it-yourself ethics, learn the basics of blogging, or enjoy a writing workout with personal trainer Jessica Anya Blau, WHWN has something for you.

Learn more at the CityLit Project website.

www.citylitproject.org/index.cfm?page=writeherewritenow