E. Christopher Clark
When my wife and I bought our house in 2004, I was in the midst of finishing my MFA and I set out to create the perfect writing space. It began with the rolltop desk, a reminder of the desk I sat at in my grandfather’s house as a kid, and it all grew out of that. The only problem with this office is that it’s too perfect — I’ve gotten to the point where I find it hard to write anywhere else, and for a guy who spends a lot of his time away from the house during the school year, that’s not a great thing.
The office is not just a place to write, but also a place to read. The shelf to the right of the desk is reserved for the fiction I turn to most often for inspiration, the shelves to the left are for the genre fiction someone might want to curl up with in the recliner, and the shelves behind my chair are for photo albums, school books, and my daughters’ books respectively.
On top of the desk is the To Read pile, things I need to read for the first time or that I want to return to. It’s a mix of fiction (Egan, Savage, Orringer, Chabon, Langer), memoir (Nafisi), and old favorites (Dubus, Campbell, Millar, Shakespeare), with a couple of business books (Vaynerchuk) thrown in for good measure.
The “magic” happens on an early Intel iMac, usually in total silence (always when drafting, and most of the time when revising). The good ol’ Casio keyboard is out because I’m rehearsing for a play I’ll be in at the Players’ Ring in Portsmouth, NH in September.
E. Christopher Clark is the founder of and chief contributor to Geek Force Five, the Best Pop Culture Blog of 2009 according to New Hampshire Magazine. His work has been published Commonthought, Device, The Bradford Review, and in Literary Matters, the newsletter of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. He has a novel, Down the Cape, which is currently looking for a home.
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