tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post1195078043056997824..comments2024-01-31T04:29:38.858-06:00Comments on The Outfit: A Collective of Chicago Crime Writers: Secret Worlds in StarbucksSean Chercoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00939494866272006802noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-16918481817840908262009-04-22T16:25:00.000-05:002009-04-22T16:25:00.000-05:00Interesting blog, interesting comments. I only wri...Interesting blog, interesting comments. I only write in one place - my office at home - because my PC and attachments aren't very portable. Boring.<br /><br />The challenge for me is finding time to write in between work and domestic commitments. It tends to be between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. Unhealthy.<br /><br />However, the crime novelist who figures as the protagonist in a new novel, "Perilaus" (Mark Hendersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866473125966450328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-80093840479110069712009-04-22T09:25:00.000-05:002009-04-22T09:25:00.000-05:00Very good post, Marcus... I also generally have li...Very good post, Marcus... I also generally have little of great value to say before lunch.<br /><br />I am not a wanderer when I write. I need to be alone and comfortable with the keyboard, ideally in a secure location like my den. It's important that I feel safe and ensconced when I'm writing, otherwise I'm always looking over my shoulder.<br /><br />How do you guys who write with music on Steerpikehttp://www.tap-repeatedly.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-40688872291825695652009-04-21T11:24:00.000-05:002009-04-21T11:24:00.000-05:00So good to know that other people are place shifte...So good to know that other people are place shifters while writing! I like to do my social networking in a coffee shop--where there's lots of people, caffeine, sugar, and loud music.<br /><br />When creating the world and mythos for my novels (I write fantasy), I usually stay in my jammies, hunched over my computer like a little spider monkey with a specific soundtrack playing. But breaks are Nancy Hightowerhttp://nancyhightower.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-62795394801097384512009-04-21T10:25:00.000-05:002009-04-21T10:25:00.000-05:00Having just started writing my first novel, I have...Having just started writing my first novel, I haven't really found a specific niche yet. Most of the writing has been done in my living room on the couch late at night. Some of it though has been done on Saturday afternoons on my back deck overlooking the canal. For some reason, the serenity gets my brain juices flowing with ideas on how to describe a gruesome beating. I haven't yet gone to a Adam Bourgoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03476000573578284763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-78984867598578831302009-04-21T10:00:00.000-05:002009-04-21T10:00:00.000-05:00As long as I have a computer that I don't have to ...As long as I have a computer that I don't have to hunch over terribly, and my iPod, I'm good. I just need some help to stay in my own head sometimes.Jake Nantzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16637039507172446111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-42744387854096047772009-04-21T09:44:00.000-05:002009-04-21T09:44:00.000-05:00Thanks to graduate school with it's grueling full-...Thanks to graduate school with it's grueling full-time, illinois-politics covering internship plus classes, I forced myself to be able to write just about anywhere, anytime because the stuff for my short fiction class was still due, not matter what foolishness Blagojevich was up to in his first 100 days in office. That said, evenings from about 6-8 or 8:30 are my peak time, at my very old beat upBethany K. Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06679355745067316748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-32800186346334801292009-04-20T18:27:00.000-05:002009-04-20T18:27:00.000-05:00I have always needed a change of scenes during wri...I have always needed a change of scenes during writing time. This proved troublesome when I had to go into an office every day. The other writers wondered where I was headed when I'd walk out in the middle of the day with my laptop under my arm.<br /><br />I have a home office I like very much. But like you, I can only work there a certain amount. <br /><br />I have a Starbucks Gold card, Guyothttp://paulguyot.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-80740386742397507672009-04-20T15:30:00.000-05:002009-04-20T15:30:00.000-05:00I have an extra bedroom I've converted into an off...I have an extra bedroom I've converted into an office, and I write there. Period. I can write other places--tonight I'm staying with ym daughter and will write on her dining room table--but my office is the official writing place.Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.com