He's even symbolized the importance of his space by how his desk supports a corner where two walls meet - since "life does not support art, it's the other way around." Stephen King, in his book On Writing advocates for the necessity of writers treating their writing space as sacred and has a special place in home for it. In fact, I know some writers who do not feel isolated at all while working from the space at home or some other isolated office they have defined as their writing space. While many writers do like to write in coffee shops, there are just as many who cannot write anywhere except for their sacred space, wherever that might be, in isolation. Rowling's successful completion of Harry Potter than escaping to that coffee shop to get her pages written, and to get there, we need to dig a bit deeper. Whether it's every time you write, or once in a while, the appeal of the coffee shop helps writers break outside the cycle of isolation.īeyond coffee shops: writing is not always solitaryīut do we really need to write in coffee shops? In my mind, there's a lot more to J.K. In that case, being in a coffee shop lets you simply enjoy that you are out among people. Thankfully, there's headphones, and, in the age of ubiquitous internet and YouTube, there's music and sound samples of endless variety available to give you the perfect writing mood for your writing session.
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The best thing about this drone is occasionally you might pick up conversation and, being a writer, you know the rule about how you should always be listening to how people talk and filing away in your mental archive some further notes on the nuances of dialogue.īut maybe you hate background noise when you're writing, or maybe the conversation closest to your table is loud and annoying and is slowly making your WIP evolve into Act 5 of a Shakespeare tragedy. On one hand, there's the susurrus of random chatter, a dull drone that makes you feel like you're in the middle of a busy town square in the middle ages, an artisan perfecting your work while the busy world encircles you. But the coffee shop usually trumps all these options for many reasons. Heck, you could even go to a restaurant if you make sure you tip the server and agree to feature them as a character in your book. Or maybe that cat who should be sleeping next to the laptop has a habit of sleeping on the keyboard (such is life with my cat, Wizard, and my one true source of writer's block). Sometimes the silence can be deafening and draining, though, and in order to break it, we think of where we can go to work in a more public setting. After all, when we write, we need as little distraction as possible. Unless you go out, you’re usually sitting at a laptop or desktop computer in the corner of some room of your house or apartment, with no one around you except perhaps a cat that’s asleep next to your keyboard. Rowling, in choosing to lay the foundation stones of her career through going to that coffee shop to write, channeled something universal, a phenomenon behind what defines a great writing space. Rowling's success story and the sudden prevalence of writers going to coffee shops to work on their novel.īut I think, inspiration aside, it's about a lot more than wanting to emulate the formula of someone else's success. I'd certainly be curious to know if anyone's ever looked into a correlation between the spread of J.K. Did the "writer in the coffee shop" stereotype originate there? Perhaps the popularity of it did. Rowling wrote her first Harry Potter book in a coffee shop in Edinburgh (it's called The Elephant House and in fact, I've put in a few writing sessions myself there, many years ago). It’s almost a cliche, but there is some truth to it, and for good reason. In fact, if you're reading this post, I bet you've been one of them.Ī coffee shop: the writer’s office. While some might be students and others might be entrepreneurs, a few of them are likely writers. I’m willing to bet you see at least a few people hunched over laptop computers typing away furiously. Picture the inside of a Starbucks - what do you see?
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