6 posts tagged “writing”
It's been about three months since I moved to Austin and started working from home. In the move, I gave up my office desk, obviously, and all of the furniture in my apartment, which wasn't worth shipping cross-country. I also decided I didn't really have room for a desk in my new house either. It's not that I didn't want a desk. My new place has very little storage space, so I had to opt for some drawers and shelves and felt there wasn't enough room for a desk.
Then I realized: I need a desk. As much as I love to write, I can't go without one. There's something about dedicating a clear space to my laptop (or paper), coffee, glasses, pens, candle, tchotchkes, scraps of inspiration; it creates a little temple, a spiritual center of sorts. I know it's just a desk. But it's important to me.
So I set out last weekend to build the smallest and cheapest office possible, and here it is!
I am so much happier now. Desk, I love you.
In case you missed it, I wrote my farewell to SFist a few weeks ago, in which I retired my "When The Lights Go Down In The City" music column I've been writing for the past three years.
Please read it, and if you enjoyed anything I wrote, leave a comment or click that little "recommend this" link. It's the only way I'll know you read it!
For your viewing pleasure, here's the video for the song that inspired the name of my column:
I'm giving away two copies of John Vanderslice's excellent new record Emerald City, so be sure to enter to win. I also have show reviews for St. Vincent at Cafe Du Nord and Rufus Wainwright at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium, and of course this week's recommended shows in San Francisco.
So go read it! Please and thanks. And if you like it, why not click on that little "Recommend this" link at the bottom of the post?
Here's JV's video for "Time To Go":
His post passed the test (or maybe I passed the test) when I was able to use it succesfully - hooray!
The Vox This button is supposed to come out in our next release, but in the meantime you can read Steve's post to learn how to use it, like I just did.
I wrote three posts today that will, in total, eventually be read by thousands of people (and in LJ's case, commented upon by hundreds already). Actually I just posted them all today, I've been writing them over the past few days.
Writing to large audiences is a huge challenge which brings me great anxiety, but also a sense of accomplishment. Sometimes when I'm done my brain feels like oatmeal.
And now I'm going to see Birds & Batteries at Hotel Utah, and take a break from the internet for at least twelve whole hours. Good night.
