19/01: Hot-Desking with Tom Cho
So, Do You Hot-Desk?
With our Book Post desk series 'I've Shown You Mine, Now Show Me Yours' clocking up to Part VIII so far, I am hearing a lot about alternate writing areas and even alternating writing areas, or what we might call 'Hot-Desking'. Hot-desking is when a writer chooses to use multiple writing locations in a 24 hour period.
Writer and artist Tom Cho, author of Look Who’s Morphing, recorded 24 hours of his writing locations for The Book Post to demonstrate a classic case of productive hot-desking...
#1. Cafe. Note the writer-friendly beverage of choice, partially consumed pastry and number 18. Though I find public places too distracting for writing, Tom is one of the many writers who find cafes creatively stimulating. 'I can write and study in all kinds of places," Tom explains. 'When I was an undergrad in my 20s, there was even a period when I used to go to McDonalds to study'.
#2. Study. This is the traditional writer's desk area. Note the paperwork, clips, stapler and the two books being used to elevate his monitor. Tom tells me that before their current function, these books were used for his PhD. Keen eyes may also notice the monitor reflection our hot-desker, Tom. The creative use of the can of WD-40 remains a mystery. (Could this be a new kind of creative lubricant?)
#3. Uni. At this location Tom has been writing at a spool and thread 'spindle' table in the library of his university. Sunglasses and study texts are pictured.
#4. Bed. Tom's reading material in this classic hot-desking location include Philosophy of Religion: Toward a Global Perspective and The Essential Lenny Bruce. 'Sometimes I write sitting on the bed, as I am now. But other times, I get in the bed and work from there.'
I am a confessed hot-desker, regularly using 2 alternate writing areas, including my bed, where I wrote most of Siren.
What about you? Do you hot-desk?
Check back soon for more of the writing desks of working authors in our 'I've Shown You Mine, Now Show Me Yours' series...
Happy reading,
Comments
Rob wrote:
*should be desk
One reason NOT to hot desk in front of the TV, generally lots more typos!
One reason NOT to hot desk in front of the TV, generally lots more typos!
19/01 22:32:54
NakedGirl wrote:
For me, hot-desking is essential, though not by choice.
I'm a "nester" by nature, which is perfectly acceptable behaviour unless you are creative and ever want to leave the house.
If I write too long or too often in one place, I find myself unable to create anywhere but there. This is terrible when you spend the summer writing on the front porch and in winter, can't do a darned thing but freeze to death.
Without (forced) hot-desking, I'd be a sedentary husk discovered 20 years from now in a dark corner, slumped into a keyboard.
I'm a "nester" by nature, which is perfectly acceptable behaviour unless you are creative and ever want to leave the house.
If I write too long or too often in one place, I find myself unable to create anywhere but there. This is terrible when you spend the summer writing on the front porch and in winter, can't do a darned thing but freeze to death.
Without (forced) hot-desking, I'd be a sedentary husk discovered 20 years from now in a dark corner, slumped into a keyboard.
20/01 00:03:47
Jack Heath wrote:
I do much, if not most, of my best writing on the long bus ride from Canberra to Sydney or back. Guess that makes me a hot-desker too!
20/01 08:04:59
Jennifer wrote:
Hot-desking is essential for me, especially when I am hit by writers block. A change of scenery usually helps get the creative juice flowing again. If I'm not in my office, my favorite place to write is out back under the shade by the pool.
20/01 13:50:43
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