Making the move across the carpet: new home office
Well, this weekend we finally finished cleaning all the dust and detritus from the construction that’s been ongoing since the first week in June. Workers attacked every room in my house. My new home office–actually my re-tooled original home office–is finally ready. For the next two days, I’ll be purging old paperwork, looking over wannabe manuscripts, and deciding which books I’ll keep and which titles will head to charity. I have entirely too many books. I have entirely too many office gadgets, writing pens depleted of ink, and stick-it notes with phone numbers I cannot identify. I must have at least 10,000 business cards collected over the years at book festivals, trade shows and during interviews.
When we moved to Florida, my original home office was a small room off the back entry way. When I say small, I mean small. It’s a former spacious laundry room. In South Carolina, I had the grandaddy office–a huge downstairs room large enough to justify the moniker ‘library.’
Ironically, if I look at the work I’ve written that won awards, as well as the two books I completed, all of it was written in the unpretentious small room.
Two years ago, we moved my office from the small whatever room to a large room just off the backyard deck. I loved the space and I set out to fill up every inch of it. I loved the view–our backyard is lush green, filled with trees and all sorts of stalks that bloom. Hummingbirds and butterflies are common.
But I soon realized that gorgeous outside view was a complete distraction. In addition, the bright light really bothered my eyes. Besides all that, the family wanted that room–”a media room” they said.
So I agreed. That began a cycle of tiling the floor, building shelves, and moving all those supplies out of that small room.
This time I’m doing it right. I am clearing out every scrap of anything that isn’t essential to my business.
So I’ll be offline Tuesday, July 31, and Wednesday, August 1. Then I’ll return to share tales of my move and some news as well.
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