“I can’t write at home,” my writer friend pauses as she explains why she writes at the coffee shop. “I feel like I’m being punished.”
I know what she means. No matter how clean my office is, how hot the home-brewed coffee at my elbow, I still get more and better writing done when I’m sitting with others at our local coffee haunt than I do at home. Must be something about the feeling — each writer “going” to her own place on the page but still being in the same physical space — that motivates us to keep writing. Once in awhile, I pause and look at my sister-writers’ faces: some smile sublimely, others with knit brows. Out of the corner of my eye, I see one look at her watch, glance around the circle and get back to writing for just 15 more minutes. “Peer pressure” at its finest.
This is what I’m hoping for when we start
1st and 3rd Thursday Open Studio Writing
at our space in the Marian Center. Between 10 am and 12 noon, writers on our email list (click here to join) are invited to drop in to write in community. If you can spare a $3 free will donation, that would be great. If not, no sweat. Hope to see you there!
Be sure to check the website for weather cancellations before heading out…
Love this idea! Thanks, Kim!