Writers Rooms, How We Work, and library catalogs

 

The links below are from the Guardian, a blog, and library.thing.com.  I found the original material on Metafilter.  The Guardian article is my favorite, and includes pictures and background information on famous writers offices.  I don't know if you would call them offices per se, but it's interesting because it is where they did the bulk of their work.  Some were shacks detached from their homes, others were rooms in the homes, some were separate offices.  Either way, they are interesting because most used pen and paper, or typewriters to write.

The How We Work are interesting as well.

One of the things I find interesting is how the professional writers (Hemingway, etc) approached writing like a job, they blocked out time on a regular (daily, weekly) basis, and approached it in a methodical fashion. The same is true of Kerouac, despite the impression people have that he wrote "On The Road" as a steady stream of unedited prose.

Writers Rooms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/writersrooms

How We Work - quotes from artists, writers, and musicians (creative types)
http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/12/how_we_work.html

I See Dead People['s Books] - A group for those interested and involved in entering the library catalogs of famous readers.
http://www.librarything.com/groups/iseedeadpeoplesbooks

 

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