I have two writing spaces. One is that every morning my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up in our bedroom and I struggle over to a little chair over on the other side of the room and I sit there with my notebook and my cup of coffee and that’s actually a really great thinking time for me, it’s you know my mind for some reason that’s when it works the best even though to the outside observer it wouldn’t look too effective.
But I sit there and whatever I put in front of my mind, that’s what my mind gets busy with so there’s that. That’s usually about an hour and then I dress myself and my studio is in the basement of our house. It’s in the basement but it’s a basement that’s partly above ground so I have these big picture windows and there’s a little woods outside. It’s really lovely.
And another really great feature of my basement studio is that it has in floor heating so it’s not, it’s not uncomfortable like some basements might be. It’s very cozy in the wintertime. You know I think something that would improve my studio is, and I guess I should describe it to you. It’s probably about 15 by 15 feet, it’s fairly large. I have a really big drawing table where I do most things and then a couple of other really big flat tables where I lay things out to look at them.
Also a really big important part of my studio is I have gigantic bulletin boards and as I’m working on a story I pin up the images in order so I can see how it’s going and in a way that helps me, even if it’s a novel, it helps me to get into that world. And I have a little couch that I write at sometimes and sometimes our dog sits there.
Something I would like some day to have in my studio is a very simple animation stand. Because I think it would be fun, I’ve done just a little bit of animating and I think I would like to know more about that.
