Friday, July 19, 2024

If You Have the Perfect Writing Nook, Don't You Just HAVE to Write?

The best thing about my new cottage - the very best thing about my very sweet new cottage - is the little room tucked under the eaves on the upper level, which David has designated as my writing nook.

You approach it up a narrow circular staircase.


And then there it is: a small, snug, cozy room with a loveseat (and I love to write while sitting sideways on a loveseat), and a chair for David if he comes to visit me, and a little table tucked under a window, and a bookcase made decades ago by my father filled with the books I love best with my beloved hourglass perched in the place of honor on top. 



There is even a little sink where I can get water to heat up for tea in my Wedgewood teapot. David just ordered for me the New York Times recommended best water-heating device, and it arrived yesterday.

The nook opens out onto a rooftop deck.

From the deck you can get a view of Boulder's iconic mountains, the Flatirons (the ones that are featured on all the postcards). Here they are!

I have had many pleasant writing spaces in my long life as a writer, but never one as irresistible as this, and one given to me, all to me, by someone who loves me and is rooting with all his might for me to thrive and flourish as a writer.

The only problem is that I haven't been writing this year, recovering from my sequential double fractures (first left elbow, then right arm) and feeling generally discouraged about myself as a writer, given the many changes in the world of publishing in recent years, many of which seem to be leaving me behind (which is fine, it really is, or sort of is, or just has to be). 

But with a writing nook like this, how can I NOT write? 

I just HAVE to write in a nook like this. 

Don't I?


12 comments:

  1. That looks perfect! Please keep writing. I love your books!

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    1. Thank you, Pat! I do feel excited about what the future will bring!

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  2. Oh wow! What a fabulous spot. Perfect retreat to escape to. Love the way your life has fallen into place. Maybe you will write something to inspire me to open my box of watercolours…🥰 XOX

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    1. Ooh! I like this idea of luring you to open the box of watercolors, too!

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  3. A little sink and a rooftop deck? I would never leave! Hooray, Claudia!

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    1. It's all I can to force myself out of it!!! But the street is darling, too, filled with whimsy and wonder.

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  4. If the question isn't rhetorical, the answer is YES, YES, YES, your inviting, enticing nook is beckoning you to write. Incidentally, your adoring readers are entreating you to do so also.

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    1. The question is NOT rhetorical, and I love the answer! And how can I resist such an entreaty?

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  5. It’s perfect! Just right for you! Sending love to you and David too

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    1. This is just marked as from anonymous, but I have a pleasant suspicion who it is... that it is YOU.

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  6. Claudia even if the world of publishing has changed a lot in recent years, just remember that there are plenty of readers who are “old school” and love your work. There is nothing in this world that gives me more pleasure than the smell of a bookstore or the feel and weight of a book in my hand. Enjoy your writing nook for the love of writing and not the love of publishing. Hoping you find peace, warmth and comfort in your return to writing after a challenging year ❤️

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    1. Thank you for these kind and reassuring words! I'm definitely "old school" myself and love books with that sensibility. I am grateful for your wish for peace, warmth, and comfort. That sounds so good to me!

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