Time and space

This has been one highly productive day. Not that I wrote anything. In fact, this post is the first bit of writing I've accomplished today. But I am doing this bit of writing while seated in my newly created media room. As I write my eight-year-old daughter is sprawled out on a comfy chair, watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone between alternate bouts of reading and drawing.

We worked all day setting up this room. And I love it because now we are actually in the same room as opposed to across the house from each other while I write and she busy's herself with 'kid' stuff. I think this is going to become our favorite room in the house before long.

The space itself is huge and for several years it served as my daughter's playroom, complete with large playhouse, toyboxes, dress-up center and everything else you could possible imagine a little girl wanting. My work-out equipment was buried behind her area and cramped together to such an extent that I didn't want to use it. To top it all off our dog's crates were also in this room.

Today everything got cleared out. All of the little girl toys and playsets were brought to the curb and rapidly scarfed up by our neighbors. The dog crates have been stored in the garage. And I set up a usable home gym, very nicely I might add, at the rear of our 22/16 Ft. room. The rest of the space became our media center, complete with bookcases and television area.

I also love the fact that I can now spread my work out across my new six foot long writing/project table. Desk space has always been a problem. Every desk I have ever owned, no matter how large it seemed when I bought it, quickly become decidedly cramped. It's not that I'm prone to disorder. I'm pretty organized. But the table is never wide enough or long enough to accommodate the spreading out of my notes, writings and reference materials. Six feet is definitely the way to go. At this very moment I have my laptop, notes, reference books and two of my manuscripts splayed out across the table and I still have plenty of room for more stuff if I need it. Of course, my coffee cup gets preferential treatment and is always located in a place of honor; right beside me ever poised for a quick retrieval of caffeinated goodness.

I'll be chatting with some online writer friends shortly. We have a Saturday evening chat. After that I plan on working on one of my speculative fiction manuscripts for a few hours. Then it will be time to study. The nice thing is that I will be able to do all of that while my daughter hangs out with me, at least until her bedtime. Now I have the time to write and the space - and some family time right in the mix. How cool.