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# Finding Chair Time
- URL: https://www.joemilanjr.com/finding-chair-time/
- Published: 2014-08-07T10:50:16.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-28T04:45:45.000Z
- Author: Joe Milan, Jr.
- Tags: becoming a writer, Productivity, Uncategorized, We're always amateurs, #wordpress, #Import 2024-01-25 18:25, #admin

![The writer's hole](http://www.joemilanjr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-writers-hole-300x225.jpeg)The Guardian used to do a series on [“Writers’ rooms.”](http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/writersrooms?ref=joemilanjr.com) It was cool to see where writers decide to hole themselves up and do the nitty, filthy, work of writing. [Poets and Writers’](http://www.pw.org/content/writing%5Fspaces?ref=joemilanjr.com) has done something similar. If you’re wondering what writers with some cash do, Pininterest has managed to find, well, [Mark Twain’s wet dream](http://www.pinterest.com/paulcub/writers-spaces/?ref=joemilanjr.com).

Anyways, in pursuit of an ever better place to do the work, I’ve rented space in a studio. I’ve only been here an afternoon but I can already say there’s something clarifying about having a big wooden desk with nothing on it. Suddenly, I don’t need to walk around the living room. There seems to be less questioning as to what I actually need to get finished. And perhaps more importantly, whenever I begin to tire, I look behind and there’s a graphic designer, huddled, cussing under his breath and breaking a sweat.

That keeps me planted in the chair. Chair-time is good.