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Nina Lane
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Sharing Spaces
Most authors, or anyone who works from home, may feel the strain of isolation at times. Of course, there are those of us who are quite...
Nina Lane
Mar 6, 20201 min read
Where They Wrote - Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl, famed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and many other beloved classic, had a shed in...
Nina Lane
Feb 27, 20201 min read
Where They Wrote - Virginia Woolf
When Virginia Woolf and her husband purchased Monk's House in Sussex in 1919, she had a writing room made from an wooden tool shed in the...
Nina Lane
Feb 27, 20201 min read
Where They Wrote - Mark Twain
From garden sheds to writing offices, where did famous historical authors like Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Roald Dahl,...
Nina Lane
Feb 17, 20202 min read
More Than One Monitor?!
Whaaat? When I first starting writing (that would be, at age 5ish), I started with large, chunky pencils and paper, which eventually...
Nina Lane
Jan 30, 20202 min read
Whiteboard Envy
Alessandra Torre's post on Where I Write (be sure to check it out in the Authors section!) gave me both chair and whiteboard envy, two...
Nina Lane
Dec 7, 20194 min read
Vision Boards - Part 4
As we've seen, authors use vision boards as a way to visually bring their characters and settings to life and to connect with their...
Nina Lane
Oct 15, 20193 min read
Vision Boards - Part 3
While Pinterest is the most popular online board site, one of the fun things about making a physical vision board is that it can allow...
Nina Lane
Sep 20, 20193 min read
Vision Boards - Part 2
The ease of changing digital vision boards is a frequently cited reason authors prefer them over physical boards. In addition to using...
Nina Lane
Sep 1, 20193 min read
Vision Boards - Part 1
Welcome to our four-part series on creativity and vision boards! Vision or "mood" boards are a longstanding popular practice among...
Nina Lane
Feb 1, 20192 min read
A Room Without a View
For many years, I wrote in a corner of our apartment bedroom, sitting at a computer cart that faced a blank white wall. You can see the...
Nina Lane
Jan 29, 20192 min read
A Way to Feng Shui
While I admire and enjoy ideal images of what my writing space should look like (but rarely does), I'm not one to put a lot of theories...
Nina Lane
Jan 25, 20193 min read
Create Your Space
There's one thing all authors and artists have in common -- we need a PLACE to create. And the wonderful part of that is that creative...
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