Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Dakota's Space



I love my laptop. Absolutely adore it. With it I can write wherever I want. I can take it to the pub with me to smoke cigarettes and bang out a few pages, I can take it to the park and write outside, or I can go where I write most of my books with it. To my bedroom. On my bed. Ensuring terrible posture and adding to the carpal tunnel issues in my wrist. But it's comfortable to me. I get my best ideas staring across the room at the white board until that familiar click hits.

My daughter can run in and out all day, the cat can lay next to me and purr, the dogs can jump on the keys and bark at me to pay attention to them. This is how I work best. I can do the quiet library writing, but I prefer noise and people. It is more relaxing and condusive to good writing than anything else for me.

This is where I wrote Sweet Dreams, Hello, and The Gallery. Where Ethan and Jamie were created. Where Mitch introduced himself to me. It all happened in this messy room with my family around me, complaining that I had been on the computer ALL DAY! All of my research books are here, my files, everything I love to be surrounded by is here. It may be a pathetic excuse for an office...but it's my space and I couldn't be happier here.

XoXoXo
Dakota Rebel

7 comments:

  1. Chaos of the mind, and yet it makes perfect sense. Which pup is that in the last pic?

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  2. Ah, the freedom of the laptop. It does make for some fine writing environments. :D

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  3. Whatever works best is the right thing for you! My laptop is strictly for traveling... with a keyboard and mouse! But I don't bend so easy these days!

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  4. That's a dog? (snicker) If mine sat on my keyboard, I'd need a new computer.

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  5. That's Wolf. He is a 5lb chihuahua and he LOVES to watch me work.

    XoXoXo
    Dakota Rebel

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  6. Laptops rock. I work on nothing but unless I'm under duress.

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  7. I'm looking forward to my 1st laptop, so I don't have to keep borrowing my daughter's:)

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