Your Sacred Writing Space
Getting what you want in this world requires an act of will over nature. If the natural un-tethered state of things is to move toward chaos, then humanity is here to inject order. And to create order we must make decisions about what makes our lives better, more comfortable and more effective, if possible without causing too much strife and discomfort to nature, to what's already good, or to those around us. It's all very well having a Zen-like respect for the universe, and a belief in karma, but we humans are designed to be creative. And as we know from physics, nothing is created from nothing - it is all disassembled and reorganized energy. In this sense, all creativity is disruptive. And often the most disruptive thing a writer can do is to insist on having a writing space somewhere in their living quarters! I fought for years to get my own writing space. It was hard when I had no writing career to speak of. Trying to convince partners that I should...