Writing Sheds of Famous Writers

SeaBreeze

SeaBreeze

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Writers usually have their favorite writing spots, a small, secluded space, sparsely furnished, where creativity flows unimpeded. The chosen environment is typically distraction-free, like the library, a hotel room, inside a car, or even a prison cell.

Many significant literary works have been produced from within prisons. Indeed, locking oneself up with only a typewriter, or pen and paper, is a reasonable strategy. The Hunchback of Notre Dame became possible only because Victor Hugo placed himself under house arrest and locked his clothes away to avoid the temptation to go outside. Many famous writers had reclusive writing sheds away from their homes and from the drudgeries of domestic life. Let’s look at some of them.

Mark Twain
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@SeaBreeze, I love this thread! Great to learn about writers and their habits... Maybe a little will rub off on this word smith =)

Here is Jane Austen's writing desk. No fancy pigeon holes, no ergonomically-correct seat, no computer.... and she only turned out 6 of the most beloved novels in the English language! Sometimes less is more....

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When a writer first gets started writing, it is hard for those we know to take us seriously. People think they can interrupt all the time. It takes a while to get people trained to leave us alone when we are being creative. Writing is like any other job. It takes discipline, determination and skill, which takes a lifetime to develop. It is 90 percent perspiration and 10 percent inspiration. Eventually people who don't respect a person enough to allow the space to pursue the calling/choice are dis-invited from a person's life. Most people we know never want to read the writer's stuff. Such is the way of things. Even with all the difficulties I would not have wanted any other life.
 
Thanks SB...love those. I live within a short drive of Roald Dahls' village... and the churchyard where he's buried...

George Bernard Shaw lived very close to my house...it's a suprising tourist attraction in the tiny nearby village.. but oddly perhaps to some , given that the house is just minutes from mine, and I pass it regularly I've never felt the need to visit inside...
 
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this is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Home in Missouri where she wrote the “Little House” series. She didn’t have a writing hide-away, she sat right at the kitchen table. Great stories with a universal appeal, told in an authentic American voice
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I read all her stories when I was a kid. They were based on her life. So was the tv series with Micheal Landon playing her father.
 
I was in the UK a couple of years ago and wound up staying by accident near Virginia Woolf's house. She had a converted garden shed she used for writing.

The house wasn't open for visits but we walked around the perimeter and saw the shed.

According to local lore, she was a nasty snob who was very critical of the fact that the town brought in poor children from London to give them shelter from the Blitz. Her husband Leonard was said to have been just the opposite, kind and generous.

Who knows. I'm not a big fan of her writing in either case.

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