Yesterday, I spent an inordinate amount of time between conference calls and editing projects avoiding my real work (writing) by looking at this site. I am fascinated by other people’s work spaces, particularly if those people happen to be writers.
Below are some of my favorite spaces. Some of these authors are familiar to me, and some of these authors are new–but I am curious about them just based on seeing where, as many of them jokingly say, “the magic happens”:
Nicholson Baker writes in his sunny kitchen
Peter Straub has the movie-set version of a writer's space
Joe Hill has the cover of True Grit hanging on his wall (and his dog is named McMurtry)--I must read his books
Lev Grossman's office looks professorial to me...
Cherie Priest shares a common pitfall for writers who work at home.
Tayari Jones can be productive on an airplane...I envy her.
Laurie Halse Anderson's office. Speaks for itself, I think. (No pun intended.)
And finally…below is my work space. I spent many years in cubicles that were brown or gray, with or without windows, that offered very little privacy. Now I’m a marketing writer and I work from home, in this “office” that’s one side of my guest bedroom, but this is also where I write my blog posts, put too many library books on hold, watch Downton Abbey, and hope, someday, to write a story I actually send out to be published. I wrote all 48,278 words of my NaNoWriMo draft at this desk as well. Don’t laugh. Did you know The Night Circus started off as a NaNoWriMo project? (Take that, Laura Miller.)
Not exactly magic but I love it nonetheless...
The picture on my computer desktop is my husband, drinking a very large beer in the Marienplatz in Munich at the start of Oktoberfest. Our seats faced the Neues Rathaus and the Glockenspiel, and it was cold and rainy but fun anyway.
My assistant, Diva, napping on the job as usual...
I wish I were napping, but it’s back to work…Happy Thursday!
Laura Miller actually really enjoyed The Night Circus, so I guess she’s taken it back
That article was the only time I ever remember strongly disagreeing with her.
You have a gorgeous assistant
Ana, did she really? Ha ha! I wonder if she knew that when she read it.
My assistant thanks you, and wholeheartedly agrees with your assessment (of course).
I love peeping into others work spaces too
Thanks for this glimpse into yours 
I also have two furry assistants who park themselves under my desk and in back of my chair, effectively hemming me in so I can’t get out!
Becca, frequently my assistant works from her other office (my lap) to ensure I’m not slacking on the job.