Where We Write
During Hectic Times, Hotels Offered Me a Safe, Quiet Place to Write
My getaways made me realize how the hotel industry has missed an economic and ethical opportunity by not marketing discounted rooms to locals.
Looping Music Takes Me to a “Place” Where I Can Write
Putting songs on repeat helps me get into a writing flow, return to my projects after time away, and access memories and moods more easily.
As a Disabled Writer, I Am a Rich Innovator
When I am in pain, I stare out the windows and write about a world I am too sick to access. Creating in my office reminds me that though the world can wound, it is also a wonder.
The Wet Desk
Smug behind my snug desk, working so far from New York, these many months gave me distance to write about catastrophe in the rest of the world.
Writing in the Nooks and Crannies of the Day or Night
Writing requires solitude so that the ghosts will come unencumbered.
Kristen Arnett and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Sharing a Writing Space
Neither of us has dated another writer—we both said we wouldn’t. Part of our hesitation had to do with very literal questions of how to share space.
I Write Wherever My Mind Can Be Free
Better than controlling my writing mind, I’ve figured out that what my brain wants most is to be free
You Don’t Write Alone
We learn from other books. When younger writers only want to write and not read, I worry that their books will lack the depth that literature’s history supplies.
Writing Is a Force
I have somehow managed to graduate from the late nights, the early mornings, and the stolen lunch breaks to full-time regular hours, writing in an office with a desk and books all around me.
Everything in Arm’s Reach
For the vast majority of the last few years, my life has spatially collapsed to one desk in one room in one apartment with one view. Sometimes it feels like too much life for one piece of furniture and a few windows to hold.