Describe your writing or art-making space.
Yark! I write wherever I am–sometimes at my computer desk on the desktop computer or in a notebook. Sometimes I write while sitting on the couch or in bed, with the laptop or pen and paper. I’ve been known to go to the library and hide in a corner and scribble like mad in a notebook.
For art–there’s always the floor–and the table–when I can find it. Usually the floor though–more room there and I can spread out more. Since i cannot get to any table lately, I have actually been using my ironing board as a sewing platform to hold my sewing machine aloft as I sew.
Describe your writing implement, device, equipment, or tools you use to create.
pens of all sorts, pencils, crayons in a pinch–usually because my dd steals all my pens and leaves me broken bits of crayon in place of the stolen pens, laptop computer, desktop computer, dip pens, markers, a finger or two dipped in paint upon occasion
What is the oddest object in your creative space?
a big round metal thing–we found it on the ground during a trip to the library–it looks as if it fell off someone’s car although for the life of me we cannot identify where on any car or truck or anything else it could have come from–it’s as big around as my hand with a big hole in the middle and all rusted and beautiful–and my dd and I immediately said we needed it for an art project–that particular art project has not yet presented itself so I have the piece just lying here and there as it gets moved around alot just to keep it out of the way
Do you listen to anything while you create? If so, what?
my dd singing is a norm–Deva Premal, Duran Duran, Madonna are other typical things–of late my favourite thing to listen to is absolutely nothing at all–which has now come into conflict as we live in an apartment and school is nearly done for the year apparently as there are kids–as in near teen-agers always about yelling and screeching and basically being a menace on many levels
Do you engage in any interesting habits, exercises, warm-ups or rituals before you settle down to create?
hiding from cats and kid? making a nice strong pot of tea is a definite–I drink tea all day and night. other than that I do alot of deep breathing all the time
when I use the laptop I do try to keep the charging cord nearby just in case I need it lest I lose anything
Raven TK
The Taverna 
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April 27, 2008 at 3:58 am
Lori
Raven, we are very similar in writing habits. Anywhere really, whenever the muse hits.
April 27, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Raven
I started writing when I was in middle school–so I wrote–everywhere–in class, at lunch, pep rallys, lectures, on the bus–at home under my bed so no one could find me. So I just write wherever I am –after having kids I learned scrawl quickly wherever you can when the need arises. 🙂