Comments on: The Writer’s Den

By: Yes, I might be a sheep « Joanne Anderton

Yes, I might be a sheep « Joanne Anderton — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:28:49 +0000

[...] On middles and muddles and big bad scissors But I am a sheep with a desk. Lots of interesting writerly type people are showing off their writing spaces, so I decided to join the party. [...]

By: Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:28:50 +0000

Well, if you absolutely must sit on the couch, you’d better get the plans for a really versatile one from Ruzkin.

By: Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:26:03 +0000

By: Janette

Janette — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:57:01 +0000

These days I’m either at the kitchen table handwriting with a stack of filled fountain pens and a pot of coffee by my side, or laptopping on the couch with headphones and voice recognition.

When we have a bigger house I will have two writing rooms to reflect this dual personality. One will have a gorgeous antique desk with inlaid leather blotter, for handwriting, plus a chaise-longue in front of the fabulous view, for just thinking. The other will be ultra-cool, modern and sleek, perfect for business meetings and reading through lucrative contracts, and will be where all the technology lives. And I’ll still prob’ly sit on the couch with my laptop.

If I’m gonna daydream, I’m gonna take it way beyond the pages of the current work-in-progress.

By: ruzkin

ruzkin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:23:55 +0000

My… my GOD, you’re right! You’re a genius!

By: Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:22:12 +0000

If the Mk II had a kitchenette and a bathroom, you’d never need to get off your couch for any reason at all!

By: ruzkin

ruzkin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:10:08 +0000

Well, it is ridiculously comfortable, but it’s way more useful in the reading lounge form than the couch form. I’m thinking of building a mk2 version this year that can transform into a full size king-double mattress.

By: Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:05:16 +0000

Ha, ha! You mean THE couch in front of the telly. The most famous couch on the Internet. That couch.

Tell me, is it as good for working as it is for playing with?

By: ruzkin

ruzkin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:31:28 +0000

Better than mine – I do all my work on the laptop, so my “working space” is the couch in front of the telly.

By: Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:55:03 +0000

Terry, Luke, the Stargate Atlantis coffee warming pad came as a free gift with one of the SGA series DVD sets (series four, perhaps). I also have a very cool Stargate flexible keyboard (that you can roll up!) which is also useless, and an amazing Stargate Atlantis miniature mouse, which is fully functional but too small to use comfortably. Both came as free gifts with boxed sets of DVDs. I am the uber sci-fi geek! If only my Baen’s Universe coffee mug had been in the photo, my uberness would have been incontrovertible.

I’m glad you liked the TimeSplash site, Luke. Yours was the one I was aspiring to when I put it together, but that kind of pazzazz is way beyond me. I’ll let you know if all that effort was worth it when the sales figures come in…