I am giving serious consideration to changing my workspace. Half my desk remains unused and hidden behind a screen. It is that way because of how my monitors are mounted on the desk–something that doesn’t appear to be modable due to the physics of the desk. The space is dirty, and crowded, and fails to execute the basic tenet of “make me feel good about writing.” Therefore, I need to switch things up in an effort to start feeling more relaxed and focused in my writing.
What focuses me on writing? I think I’m a forest-punk kind of guy. I want to have tech from various ags all around me–the cobble together or reuse kind of stuff in an environment that feels like it is foresty. I know that is not a real word, but it conveys the idea of trees and green and lush, calm life. Sadly I work in an office that faces the rising son and gets a ton of heat and has bad (basically broken) AC that costs too much to fix, so the green is unlikely or at best seasonal. However, I can add a water feature and maybe manufacture some level of additional storage to hide my clutter. This is progress.
Some Thoughts:
- I am beginning to think about the things that keep me happy, focused, and thus productive. The time conversation was extremely helpful and enabled me to gamify progress a bit. I dig gamification in the sense that it helps me apply my thinking to a problem in a fun fashion.
- Ok, marbles and writing it is!