BooksChatter: ✉ My Ideal Writing Space: The Chocolatier's Wife [2]

Today author Cindy Lynn Speer takes over our blog to tell us about her ideal writing space.

Her latest novel is The Chocolatier's Ghost (28 June 2017, Dragonwell Publishing, 420 pages), a Fantasy Mystery, book two of The Chocolatier's Wife series.

“Cindy Lynn Speer has captured many voices in her novel and set them in a well-crafted world. The book works as both a mystery and romance...I would be interested in further adventures of William and Tasmin.” - SF Crowsnest

“Beautifully written, The Chocolatier’s Wife will draw you into its spellbinding pages until you have read each and every one... I enjoyed each moment and encourage everyone to pick up a copy today.” - Long and Short Reviews

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My Ideal Writing Space

by Cindy Lynn Speer

I have made attempts to create an ideal writing space in my home. A corner of my bedroom has windows in each wall, and between the windows, in that corner, I placed bookshelves and a pretty little secretary desk. The shelves have all my writing references, books I used to inspire me and learn the craft, different kinds of mini-encyclopedias on specific subjects, cool books on language, my main references, etc. I decorated the top with pretty little things, like a blown glass dragon, a bowl of pretty stones, glass inkwells. I can look out either window.

I never use it. I write where I can, mostly, in my recliner, like right now, the laptop propped on a lap desk while I click away, tea (maple from Maine) steeping and likely to be forgotten in the next few minutes. It’s comfy, my feet are up, though I am propped fairly straight, and in the winter I have an electric blanket.

But when you ask me about my ideal writing space I keep wanting to think of something romantic. Large windows and a beautiful view. Lots of light. Maybe the windows are open, and the breeze is that perfect warmth, balmy and gentle, like the touch of angel wings. I prefer woods, and water. Maybe mountains.

I think I would like stained glass in the windows, so that the sun can dash colors across the book shelves that line the walls. A comfy chair is at the desk, and a little stool is under it, because I am always putting my feet up, or sitting on them, always gathering myself up. At work I broke a chair arm because I was always pushing against one side to get my feet under me. (So I guess this chair, in this ideal space, better be pretty sturdy.) I think I would pick a quiet and calm color, like a sage, for the walls. It would be a serene place, with two monitors, because two monitors are amazing, and everything at hand so I could just create away.

And with my luck, I probably would never manage to find the right time to write there, either. *cheeky grin*