When Your Writing Gear Goes Down: A downer

Not sure if this entry is going to be any good. However, it's what's on my mind, and I figure it's either write about that or sit and mope around in my living room trying to choose between movies.

I talked about my writing gear before. A person's writing space can be a pretty sacred spot.

My primary writing space.

In recalling the hassles of this day, I think back not only to the little writing space you see above, but in the homes I lived in the comfortable river towns of Clinton and Muscatine, Iowa. Those homes and my current one have pluses and minuses. (Clinton's was older and centrally located, but both convenient and inconvenient at the same time. Muscatine's was big and more modern, but a massive hassle to keep up. My current Chariton house is older with an older home's issues, but it's small and cozy, and pretty easy to maintain.)

You want to have everything perfect. It should be relatively secluded from the hustle and bustle of wherever you are living - that is, not right in the …