Feng Shui is the practice of placement to achieve harmony. Making sure everything is organized in a serene way and you have the right symbols for success, romance etc depending on the location and direction of the room. I think of this today as I look at the monster of chaos my office space has recently become.
I used to pay attention. I want to be organized. But I’ve shoved so many papers here or there-stuffed things in bags and pushed them under my desk-that I’m starting to feel like Oscar the Grouch. I’m wondering if this has anything to do with my recent absentmindedness. I havent blogged all week on my personal blog, and I havent been exactly good with my time concerning my current WIP.
People have discussed how a special place is important to writing. Some people need a closed office and quiet. Some people can write dangling upside down off the couch on a laptop with the tv blasting. This will sound weird but I write best in my office in the living room, sometimes with music, but mostly with the television on a low hum, preferably tuned to Star Trek Voyager or Firefly {1.It makes me feel close to my hubby when he is at work 2. I’ve seen them all so many times its more comforting than distracting.} But this mess-this mess is not conducive to good writing. I doubt anyone could write in this.
Where do you do your best work? Does organization matter?
June 26th, 2007 at 11:46 am
I’m never organized…and I read a study once that said people who are super organized and people who are total slobs get about the same amount done…it’s people who are kinda together that get the most done. Crazy, huh?
June 26th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I guess I can believe it. I’ve never been super neat-but this is ridiculous.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:59 am
HA!!!!! I couldn’t be organized if I tried (and I have). My whole life is barely contain chaos. If I did start plotting (which is highly doubtful), I’d lose the damn notes. Probably the reason I’m a total panster.
I always have good intentions.
*whiny voice* “All my life I’ve been judged by my actions rather than my intentions. What’s up with that?”.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I;ve always tried. I love the idea of having a pristine working place with post its in the right place, a pen always handy and a set place for my laptop.
It never works.
June 26th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
We are in the process of cleaning clutter. My husband is a pack rat. . . 99% of all the clutter is his. Which is why I can’t just pitch it all in the trash.
Clutter is very disturbing to me. I don’t know if it has to do with Feng Sui or not. . .but it drives me to distraction. And these days, I need every bit of my attention span!
June 26th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I’m sort of organized. I can take clutter to a point then it makes me crazy and I go on a cleaning binge lol.
My best work is…hmmm. I write everywhere really, but mostly in my house and the back patio. I need music on. Or I’ll put on Pretender or Supernatural or Riddick dvd’s or something else that I know so well I can hear it and not have to watch it. I need noise, but it’s so familiar it’s like white noise.