Places For, Not Of, the Imagination

With Travis and his cavalcade of contributors, the WoM have also recently been hashing over the places we've known. Furthering that spirit of geographical exploration, there's an interesting photo series in the Guardian (hat tip to Leigh at Criminal Brief) revealing various Writers' Rooms. Being a genre-licious hack, I'm not familiar with every interviewee, but I was nosy enough to be fascinated by the similarities and differences in the approaches and environments.

In my gadabout way, I'll work anywhere. Just lately, though, as my own self-imposed deadline approaches, I've felt a need to have a more official, segregated area to aid my scattershot focus. Today, we're supposed to have a new dining table and chairs delivered. I'm thrilled, since in a decade we've never had a place big enough for more than a 4-seater, and I do enjoy the hospitable arts.

I've already relocated the old one into a converted sun porch off the living room, (taken the candlesticks, too, since the DR's stripped down to just four walls and anticipation), and I'm working from it now. It's not bad as a beginning, though I think I may need to rearrange slightly for the benefit of my tailbone. There's a matching sun room upstairs which I've also been considering making into a sitting room/office, and which currently holds the final detritus of our move which must get gone soon, no matter what.

Where do you write? Does it need to be filled with inspirations or emptied of distractions? Is its location and organization (or lack of same) important to you?