One of the great things about being a writer is that you can do your work anywhere. All you need is a notebook, or a laptop and your imagination.
Or so I thought.
Since I reorganised my desk in my new house and become more productive I can’t help but think the two are related. I love my desk. I love it’s cosy feel. I’m surrounded by notebooks, plants, cups of coffee, my mug of coloured pencils and a chicken mug of pens and I’m happy. I want to be sitting here working and writing. I’m inspired.
At my old house my desk was next to the kitchen, on the same level, and when paperwork came in, when there was something hanging around the house that didn’t have a home, then these things would often find themselves in my office. Bills on my desk, unused gift wrap on the floor, cracked mugs I couldn’t bring myself to throw away. They would all collect around me and suck out my creativity and motivation. Especially the house admin. That is a creativity killer.
When we started to prepare to move I started to declutter my office. There’a a lot of ‘stuff’ that has made its way to the charity shops or to the bin. At my new house my office feels clearer, it can breathe and I can breathe and create.
Yes there are still a few boxes of stuff that I haven’t unpacked yet because I cannot decide what to do with it. But they can stay in boxes for now, there’s no rush. In the meantime I have my cosy desk and three Ikea units and that is more than enough for my work things.
I photograph my desk for Instagram and I get a lot of questions. So I thought I’d do a tour of my writing desk and show you what I keep on it and why it makes me feel so ‘creatively cosy’!
