Postby Ivy » Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:07 pm
:?: QUESTION!
If YOU were a writer and needed to have:
1- magazines I'm in, to also study the other writers' stories,
2- books for pleasure and studying other authors,
3- files
4- 3 x 5 cards and 4 x 6 cards, but luckily I have file boxes for both
5- and have a small office, WHERE does everything go?
I put things, sometimes on the dining room table and seats of pub stools to the dining room table, on my end table next to my chair and the bottom shelf to it, and I enjoy working in the great room where there is a fire, by hand or reading, but prefer working in my office on the computer. So some of my papers, books, supplies, and important contracts are in the office where they belong, but.....
When I'm studying the markets of other magazines or books, I start thinking I've got too much clutter. DH said it doesn't bother HIM at all, it's just us here, and if guests are coming, it's quickly company ready. I don't know if the answer is baskets, to pretty it up more, or what. Perhaps a basket on the floor, out of the way so I won't trip on it would look good and be okay. I can put a basket on my end table, too. I'll put my thinking cap on. I just don't want my great room looking like Fibber McGee's closet! At least my clutter does seem to have some order to it, but clutter is clutter. But then again, if this is for my job, is it actually defined as clutter or tools for working? I work from my home. But then, if DH were to do wood-working without a shop or garage and brought his "stuff" inside the house, it'd be clutter. Is paper clutter and/or book clutter permissible for a writer? I'm a SHE and want to follow the SHE sorta code of ethics and adhere to what the other SHE's are doing, too. Know what I mean? My office is nice looking. I just need to figure out how to be neater and more orderly in the great room. Any tips or helpful answers are more than welcome. DH doesn't "get" the SHE mentality I have, but here at the Village, everybody understands each other and helps one another. Just because my clutter isn't bothering DH at ALL, doesn't mean it's not bothering me. I suppose I could move "stuff" back into the office, but the office will be more crowded. I'll chew it over and try to come up with a decision or good idea.
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