The writing environment is one of the most important tools writers can have, yet its influence is often overlooked. Join an RWA decorating diva in looking at author's environments and get tips, tricks, and advice on making your writing space right for you.
Have you ever evaluated your writing environment? Do you know if you write more when there's silence or background noise? Are you more likely to stay focused at home alone or sitting in a coffee shop surrounded by strangers? Does your office area make you feel like writing?
Through a special written assessment, we'll explore your writing and environmental preferences and determine if your environment is enhancing or inhibiting your style. Then, we'll show you how to incorporate your unique preferences into your creative space.
A slide show will illustrate a variety of working writer's creative spaces as we discuss the importance of elements such as light and temperature as well as the impact of your style, including concepts such as organization and ambience. See examples from beginning to bestselling authors and hear how they have met the challenge of creating a place to nurture their muse.
Come discover what you need to do your best work. Take away tips, tricks and techniques for surrounding yourself with the things that enhance your creativity, increase your productivity and help you to enjoy your writing more.
It's wonderful for a writer to live near Washington, DC as I do. The research resources are fabulous, the scenery is great – complete with monuments, gorgeous public buildings, and the most amazing, weird, convoluted, political people – and I get to be here with the most awesome family, friends and neighbors in the world. I live here with my wonderful husband (he's my personal hero), my two delightful, growing-too- fast sons, and my silly Dalmatian.
As former marketing executive, I worked for research parks, governmental concerns and not-for-profits, (which is also great fodder for the writer's mind!) but now I'm happily employed as a consultant and full-time writer. I'm a member of Romance Writers of America, Science Fiction Writers of America and Thriller Writers. I'm also a proud member of the Washington Romance Writers, an RWA chapter, as well as several online RWA chapters.
One of the most enjoyable things I get to do as a consultant and writer, is to teach. I enjoy connecting with my clients, readers and other writers. In addition to my marketing work, I've gotten degrees in interior design and landscape design, which I use to teach a class on Creating the Write Environment. Having also worked in the funeral and cemetery business for nearly thirteen years, I teach a class on Body Disposal. I'm also very proud to work with bestselling author Madeline Hunter to teach a class on Surviving Almost There. You can check those out on the Classes button.
Being part of the Ad(d)ams Family, as you can imagine, Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love to work in the garden, run my Dalmatians, hang out with my family, and write. Other than that, as another, more famous author says, the rest is subject to change without notice.
