{"id":1860,"date":"2009-08-13T10:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T14:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2009-08-13T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T14:05:01","slug":"writers-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/writers-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer’s Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love these pictures<\/a> of some well known science fiction writer’s “offices” where they get their work done.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall, the level of clutter is stupendous. I couldn’t imagine getting anything done in some of these rooms, except maybe having an anxiety attack, let alone write a book.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes me wonder how someone could focus on any one task in that kind of space.<\/p>\n

I love the unabashed crapulence of it all.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly some of these writers love their space.\u00c2\u00a0 These are “man caves<\/a>” of the highest order (the ladies seem to have a much higher level of aesthetics and organization overall).\u00c2\u00a0 Wilson, you clearly need to start adopting some habits from these crazy old hermits to become a successful writer.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, sweatpants and a huge beard help with the mystique quite a bit:<\/p>\n

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Saw it on Boing Boing<\/a> this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Great stuff.<\/p>\n

Makes me wonder why I don’t have a man cave.\u00c2\u00a0 Although I don’t really have anything to put in it, nor any time to be there.\u00c2\u00a0 Hm, that’s probably why I don’t have one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love these pictures of some well known science fiction writer’s “offices” where they get their work done.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall, the level of clutter is stupendous. I couldn’t imagine getting anything done in some of these rooms, except maybe having an … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-man-caves-where-no-vacuum-has-ever-gone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-u0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}