Start Writing Fiction - week 2 (imagining writing spaces)

Trying to picture the worst place for you to try to write can help you realise what your best venue might be. Imagine two different venues for writing – one that seems most suited to you, and one that you would find bizarre or too difficult. Write a paragraph describing two writers at work, one in each of the venues.

Tom was exasperated. The excited chattering of the kids, the distracting radio, and his inability to write legibly as the pen took its own unpredictable route across the page whenever the brake was applied or at any deviation from the straight line, all conspired to prevent the emergence of his creative ideas. There may well be a magnum opus in his head but the two hour car journey to Brighton wasn’t going to be the occasion for coaxing  out the first chapter. 

The background music somehow helped Tom lose himself in his own thoughts. His carefully chosen playlist had reached Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor. The sky was turning gold as the sun dropped low on the horizon and the waves broke gently upon the shores of his Hebridean retreat. He quickly jotted down the outline to Chapter 3 and checked his notes. In that moment he knew exactly where he was taking his story.