Write Place, Write Time

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you -- it will come out of that wall.
- Anton Chekhov

Jason Ciaramella

       

You see that picture? It’s kind of misleading. Sure that’s where I’m doing all my writing these days, but up until a few months ago everything I ever had published was written on a cramped kitchen table next to a window that magnified the sun and always made me feel like I was being roasted alive. I’m glad I don’t have to write there anymore.

Now that we have that out of the way, I’ll tell you a little bit about my workspace. To start, my desk is from Ikea. I had planned to have a local furniture maker hand whittle me a desk worthy of a proper writer, but then I remembered that I write comic books and said to myself: “Hey, you write comic books. You can’t afford to pay anyone to make you a desk.”  It’s true. Handmade furniture isn’t cheap.  So, $70 and an hour of assembly time later and the incredibly efficient desk you see before you was ready to be used. The Godzilla toys were put there by my youngest son when he found out I was going to be writing a comic about the big green guy. There were twice as many a week ago, but I’ve since put a few back in his toy box. The phone is a ShoreTel 230G IP Phone which connects to my Juniper SRX100 VPN router. Pretty state-of-the-art stuff for a guy who writes funny books, huh? And don’t bother asking why I have them because I won’t tell you. Just know that I have probably used them to spy on you, and if I haven’t, I probably will. Soon.

There’s a stack of comps I just got in the mail, and my iPad which I do most of my reading on these days. I don’t like the accumulation of things (yes, even books and comics) so if I can get something digital, that’s usually my first choice. Oh, and there’s my coffee mug that’s been empty for way too long. You ever leave a little coffee in the bottom of the cup and then hours later pick up the cup and act surprised when the drop of coffee you left in there turns out to be cold? I do that every day. 

Well, that’s it. The next time you pick up an issue of something I wrote, you can close your eyes and imagine how unfabulous of a place it was written in.

Thanks for stopping by.

Jason Ciaramella is the Eisner Award-nominated writer of THE CAPE miniseries, KODIAK, and GODZILLA: KINGDOM OF MONSTERS. He is easily stalkable online and can be found on Twitter and at his blog.

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