The desks these authors work on make an incredible amount of sense when you read their work. Jane Austen would of course use a portable desk, and in "Pride and Prejudice" you can feel the ideas free-flowing from place to place with a confidence that they'll go where Austen wants them to go. Ray Bradbury's workspace is dark and packed with information, just like his stories (especially "Something Wicked This Way Comes") are dark spaces packed with meaning. The early Stephen King is a tough nut to crack, but you could argue that his desk comes across as someone hot-wired an IT cubicle to operate more like a Mack truck ...... King's early books don't cover ground so much as bulldoze it. It occurred to me when seeing Louisa May Alcott's desk how much of a difference there is between her and Jo March, and the reason I notice is because of the way Greta Gerwig depicted the climactic book drafting of "Little Women": Jo is shown laying all her pages out across her entire attic floor by candlelight, a much more dramatic way of doing it like a general preparing for battle. It definitely fits with the character Alcott created to express her real-life struggle, but Jo is also much younger (Alcott was 35 when Volume I of "Little Women" was published).
So many of these are ‘cluttered’ and I just can’t get my head around it 😂 I’d just want to procrastinate by tidying those spaces if that’s where I tried to write. Do agree with the big window and trees setting which I’m lucky enough to have for my writing space (although I’d love some mountains!)
Can tyou imagine dusting Ray Bradbury's space?! I can only imagine it would smell musty and dusty. I currently write mostly in bed looking out my window at the brick duplex next door with a sliver of sky ... the desk under my window is neatly piled with journals and a couple of inspiring items (like the cutest little typewriter-shaped plant pot, which holds a philodendron cutting in a jar of water. I dream of writing in a light-filled room with French doors overlooking paddocks and mountains, perhaps with a stream I can explore when not writing. I'm also an artist, so it's more likely I'll have a lounge and low table in a corner of the studio I hope to have.
I loved this video, I'm definitely going to check out part 1 of this series. I think you might enjoy Mason Currey's books Daily Rituals and his second book Daily Rituals: Women At Work Happy reading and writing!
Ray's room is giving hoarder 😂
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The desks these authors work on make an incredible amount of sense when you read their work. Jane Austen would of course use a portable desk, and in "Pride and Prejudice" you can feel the ideas free-flowing from place to place with a confidence that they'll go where Austen wants them to go. Ray Bradbury's workspace is dark and packed with information, just like his stories (especially "Something Wicked This Way Comes") are dark spaces packed with meaning. The early Stephen King is a tough nut to crack, but you could argue that his desk comes across as someone hot-wired an IT cubicle to operate more like a Mack truck ...... King's early books don't cover ground so much as bulldoze it.
It occurred to me when seeing Louisa May Alcott's desk how much of a difference there is between her and Jo March, and the reason I notice is because of the way Greta Gerwig depicted the climactic book drafting of "Little Women": Jo is shown laying all her pages out across her entire attic floor by candlelight, a much more dramatic way of doing it like a general preparing for battle. It definitely fits with the character Alcott created to express her real-life struggle, but Jo is also much younger (Alcott was 35 when Volume I of "Little Women" was published).
It always surprises me how TINY everything used to be. Houses. Chairs. Beds. Balconies. I'm quite tall, and I can barely fit in many historic rooms.
So many of these are ‘cluttered’ and I just can’t get my head around it 😂 I’d just want to procrastinate by tidying those spaces if that’s where I tried to write. Do agree with the big window and trees setting which I’m lucky enough to have for my writing space (although I’d love some mountains!)
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Can tyou imagine dusting Ray Bradbury's space?! I can only imagine it would smell musty and dusty. I currently write mostly in bed looking out my window at the brick duplex next door with a sliver of sky ... the desk under my window is neatly piled with journals and a couple of inspiring items (like the cutest little typewriter-shaped plant pot, which holds a philodendron cutting in a jar of water. I dream of writing in a light-filled room with French doors overlooking paddocks and mountains, perhaps with a stream I can explore when not writing. I'm also an artist, so it's more likely I'll have a lounge and low table in a corner of the studio I hope to have.
Heh, Jane Austen had a literal laptop.
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I loved this video, I'm definitely going to check out part 1 of this series. I think you might enjoy Mason Currey's books
Daily Rituals and his second book
Daily Rituals: Women At Work
Happy reading and writing!
I’ll check them out :) and I have two more videos in this series I’m working on editing rn!
@@SaraLubratt awesome!
Yay new video!! this was so interesting to listen to and watch and I'm like Ray cuz my writing space is always a mess haha!
😂 kinda comforting right? That he was able to get such great books written there