Regular readers know I am spending the summer (and into October) in gorgeous Kettle Falls, WA. What I may not have mentioned is that we’re living in an RV while building our house here. The house will not be habitable until fall at the earliest.
As you might imagine, RV living can be rather cramped — even for two adults and a 40-lb. Staffordshire bull terrier — especially when we not only live here but run several Web-based business ventures out of the RV.
My workspace is about 4 inches from our bed when I’m sitting at my desk, so I don’t have a lot of space to spread out and consider materials for A Storied Career. I can spread them on the bed, but then I have to move them every night when we retire.
Today I set up an ancillary workspace inside the (very) unfinished house. This is where I will perform “triage” on materials I’m considering for A Storied Career. I love this setup — with the comfy chair (that even has little pockets for my favorite kinds of pens and stapler), the table to spread out the materials, sunlight streaming in, and cool breezes blowing in from the Columbia River.
As I began doing triage in there this morning, I already felt more passionate, fired up, and excited about future blog entries than I did while reviewing materials in the RV. My workspace and tools are exceedingly important to me.
Bloggers, writers, storytellers, practitioners — to what extent does your workspace influence your effectiveness and creativity? Is it uber important like mine is — or does it not really make a big difference to you where you work?