This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the six hundred eighth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

I hope you enjoyed this week's episode.

What are the best places to write?

15 tips to create the perfect writing space.

All right, so I admit it.

I drool over Pinterest pictures of Dreamy libraries and studios.

Sometimes I Google Writers' Offices for inspiration about the best places to write in search of that

perfect writing space that will magnetize me to my desk and make me want to

stay curled up with my work and progress for endless hours of storytelling. Of course it

doesn't really work that way even though I am a neat-knick sort of person who enjoys interior

decorating, my office experiences never quite look like the Pinterest version.

There's dust, there's crumbs, even worse,

there are distractions.

There's, you know, the internet.

And no matter where I write or how I design my writing space, there's always the reality that writing

isn't actually all that glamorous.

But that's the good news, actually.

The very fact that writing does not require a high maintenance setting means we can in fact do it anywhere.

As nice as a study lined with bookcases of leatherbound first editions might be or a little desk on a porch overlooking the beach,

these aren't necessarily the best places to write for most of us.

After all, the best place to write is any place where we actually do write.

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