Trek writers and editors: Show us your Desks/Offices!

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I don't think anyone has posted on this before (at least my brief search didn't reveal a thread).

Trek writers and editors: Post a photo or two of your working environment. Let us see how messy or clean your office space is. Is the room piled high with books and papers? Do you crouch at an old typewriter like a hyaena at a kill? Do you have a window? Are there empty bottles of rotgut piled beneath your chair? Have you got action figures lined up over your monitor?

I'm sure I'm not the only person who'd be interested to see. Don't tidy up first - we won't judge.

 

[William Leisner]

What, not even a "please"?

 

[BrotherBenny]

What, not even a "please"?

Please, sir. can I have some more?

 

[TerriO]

I just moved recently, and I'm under deadline, so my workspace is wherever I happen to sit down with my laptop at the moment.

 

[terpette]

^ What, you mean you don't write on the iPhone?

Karen

 

[TerriO]

^ What, you mean you don't write on the iPhone?

Karen

I have actually written scenes on the iPhone when I was on the subway to work.

Not conducive to doing anything with any speed, but it's do-able.

 

[DaveGalanter]

Here's mine, as it was a couple years ago, before I moved to the D.C. area....

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Here's mine, as it was a couple years ago, before I moved to the D.C. area....

I like the Egyptian prints, including the famed Egyptian god Spider-man. Seriously, those Egyptian pieces remind me of my mother's.

 

[Geoff Thorne]

no desk. have laptop, must travel.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

What, not even a "please"?

Pretty please with a Romulan on top?

 

[Scott Pearson]

Trek writers and editors: Post a photo or two of your working environment.

Here's the day job, not looking too bad. Given the number of projects I have going at any one time, there may be a stack of first pages of one book, a proofed layout of another, and printer proofs from yet another spread out over my desk. And often the previous version of the layout as well for comparison. Makes for lots and lots of paper stacks. This is actually at our old offices, but since we brought the same cubes over to our new place it looks much the same.

And here's the home desk. At home I need to keep the surface fairly clean, or the clutter distracts me. Maybe a hard copy of my current project will be stacked at the left, but mostly this is how it looks. The photo is forgiving . . . you can't see how dusty everything is.

 

[TheAlmanac]

Outside of the purely TrekLit realm, you may be interested in Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces, which seeks to show the same sort of thing for a variety of genre writers...

 

[ronny]

Outside of the purely TrekLit realm, you may be interested in Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces, which seeks to show the same sort of thing for a variety of genre writers...

Hey, that actually ties on with Trek, Frederick Pohl edited the Bantam books and Joe Haldeman wrote a couple.

Thanks for the link. I haven't heard of a fair number of the people but it was cool to see where Bova and Haldeman work, two old favorites of mine.

 

[Greg Cox]

Well, I don't have a digital camera at hand, but my office is on the second floor of an old Victorian house in rural Pennsylvania. As I look around, I see four filing cabinets and three bookcases, two computers (one for writing, one for the internet), family photos, and stacks of magazines and comic books. A eclectic collection of action figures (Zorro! Chiana! Khan!) populate the bookshelves. A ceiling fan and open windows keep things cool.

Usually, by the time I finish a book, my office looks like a bomb hit it. Reference books are piled haphazardly on the floor. Legal pads and index cards are overflowing my desk. I always need to take a day to clean up before I start the next project!

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

... two computers (one for writing, one for the internet)...

Smart man. Having my all-in-one computer provides me with immediate access to that ultimate candy of distraction -- the internet.

 

[Greg Cox]

... two computers (one for writing, one for the internet)...

Smart man. Having my all-in-one computer provides me with immediate access to that ultimate candy of distraction -- the internet.

Not that smart. The internet computer is only one chair over from the writing computer!

 

[William Leisner]

If I had Greg's setup, not only would I have the temptation of internet candy, but I'd also have whiplash from having to turn back and forth so often to get it...

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

... two computers (one for writing, one for the internet)...

Smart man. Having my all-in-one computer provides me with immediate access to that ultimate candy of distraction -- the internet.

Not that smart. The internet computer is only one chair over from the writing computer!

It's a start at least. Next up is putting it at the other end of the room. Then, you'll have to move the internet computer into the adjacent room.

If I had Greg's setup, not only would I have the temptation of internet candy, but I'd also have whiplash from having to turn back and forth so often to get it...

Hadn't thought of that.

 

[Christopher]

I generally use my desktop for internet and my laptop for writing. Which is partly to avoid the distraction of the Web, and partly because it frees me up to take my writing wherever I need or want to be. I like to work on my balcony when the weather's good, and sometimes, if I have a tight deadline or if I'm having a particularly hard time wrenching myself away from the Web, I'll take my laptop over to the nearby university and write in one of the libraries. Plus there's convention travel, and I even got a good amount of writing done when I had jury duty a while back. (I wasn't picked for a trial, so it was just spending a few days in the courthouse, literally getting paid just for being there. So I had plenty of time to work.)

 

[TerriO]

If I had Greg's setup, not only would I have the temptation of internet candy, but I'd also have whiplash from having to turn back and forth so often to get it...

Suddenly, my neck problems make more sense. I used to have that setup. Don't anymore.