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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Writing Alone in a Toilet

You could write in a Wayside Chapel or a W.C. So long as you're alone. I vould like to be alone.
- Did you notice I changed voices three times in the first two paragraphs?
- I emphasized ALONE, like in a borrowed toilet, preferably William Faulkner's borrowed toilet.
- Some authors write in crowded French cafes with black ink on a pad of lined yellow paper.
- Blue ink does it for some, or a dull pencil. Or a very sharp pencil. Or a crayon or lipstick on a mirror in William Faulkner's W.C.
- Others in a cork lined room from midnight to dawn.
- Get rid of the distractions. Pitch the TV onto the street. Stomp on the stereo and tear the cord from your MP3 player.
- Music sometimes helps the muse, I'm told. Choose your own poison.
- I write alone in front of a colored 21" screen. Virginia Woolf had a room of her own.
- So do I.
- Where should we write? Under a rainbow, by a window, in a library kiosk, on a bench in a busy shopping mall, in Portugal, under a magnolia tree which sheds blossoms like pink rain into our novel?
- Ultimately, like Ernest Hemingway said, we should write in our heads.

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