While I was at Readercon last week, my friend, Emerian Rich, emailed me a marvelous "tour" of a writer's workspace–a single photo of a highly-organized desk with numbers identifying points of interest.
Although my own writing workspace is not nearly as tidy, it does possess a unique combination of odds and ends. Check out the picture below and see if you can locate the following:
1. Ergonomic bed pillow used to adjust my husband's 45-year-old swivel chair to fit my dimensions
2. Postal meter manufactured when the first class postage rate was 25 cents for the first ounce
3. Postal meter manufactured when the first class postage rate was 4 cents for the first ounce
4. Cup of cold coffee
5. Box of tax records
6. Instructions for updating my Garmin G.P.S.
7. Model of a single-engine plane my husband sold 30 years ago.
8. Vocabulary builder I used circa 1960
9. Poster showing a space ship, a Barbie car, an astro-lizard and the working title of my parable, "Heroes Arise."
10. Telephone so ancient that Ma Bell used to rent it to me on a monthly basis.
11. Stack of writing papers, bills and business cards
12. Zip drives for a computer I no longer own.
13. Screenie Cleanie that is far too dusty to use
14. Wind-up computer angel
15. Outdated church directories
16. Postal receipt for an item mailed to my daughter in 1997
17. Diorama of flowers used in lieu of a real bouquet at my wedding in 1975
18. Guilded straw anchor given to me by my husband five years before our wedding.
19. Address book used before there were area codes
20. A thirty-year-old note from my Mom explaining the origin of her middle name.
Visit the website of Laurel Anne Hill (author of "Heroes Arise") at http://www.laurelannehill.com.