Discuss: Awesome Literary Things

This week’s Awesome Literary Thing: A Window Into the Writers’ Space

Are you ever curious about where other writers do their writing? I know I am. Maybe I’m just insufferably nosy, but I love peeping into writer’s writing spaces and seeing how they work. A writer’s space can tell you what they want around them when they try to create stories. Some folks need clutter, others need  an almost sterile level of cleanliness. Because each writer is different, no two writing spaces are the same. Of course, famous writers’ writing spaces are usually more interesting than just your friend who pens short stories in her free time. And yes, the internet has come up with a slideshow for that.

The Apartment Therapy website has compiled photos of 15 famous writers’ bedrooms. This is where they spent most of their time, this may be where they wrote, and this is probably where they read for inspiration. The list includes the likes of Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Mary Roach. My personal favorite? Alexander Masters, because it seems so much like my own bedroom.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/literary-style-15-writers-bedrooms-168023

Now for a bit of navel-gazing. If people were to look at my bedroom at this very moment, or if they were to look back at this moment in time and how I lived, they would see a splash of color. I’ve been told that my bedroom is very bright, very busy, and very flammable because of how many paper goods are present there. I surround myself with relics and souvenirs from pieces of fiction that I enjoy, pictures of people who inspire me, and — of course — my collection of books. There is very little blank space on my bedroom walls.

Whose bedroom is your favorite out of these 15 bedrooms? Have you seen the bedroom of a different author? If historians or book enthusiasts looked back on your bedroom, as it is now, what would they find?

— Jet Fuel Editor, Mary Egan