{"id":2177,"date":"2013-02-08T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2013-02-08T17:07:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:07:42","slug":"things-writers-get-excited-about-a-k-a-my-new-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/things-writers-get-excited-about-a-k-a-my-new-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Things writers get excited about, a.k.a., my new desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers get excited about different sorts of things than other people: imaginary folks who start talking to them in the middle of the night, pens, a chance to go to some exotic or peaceful retreat where they will spend the majority of the time working away on their computers.  What am I excited about this week?  I finally got myself a proper writing desk!<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blogpics\/desk2013.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Up until now, my only desk has been my small computer desk, which if you&#8217;ve watched my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V6MMmC9rkGQ\">office tour video<\/a> you know generally has no available free space whatsoever.  So when I&#8217;m doing line edits on paper (which I do for every major draft of every book) or going over copyedits or page proofs (which arrive printed out) or just brainstorming ideas away from the computer, I often find myself awkwardly sitting on the bed or the couch or my writing chair with one of our little folding tables set up.  Finally I decided it was worth the hassle of tracking down a desk that did everything I needed.  It had to take up not too much space, because my office isn&#8217;t terribly big, so a secretary style with a drop down writing surface worked perfectly.  I wanted lots of storage, to make as good use of the space it&#8217;d take up as possible.  Plus, I like lots of compartments on my furniture the same way I like lots of pockets in my purses, so a set up like this makes me incredibly pleased:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blogpics\/desk2013inside.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(There are even two secret compartments!)<\/p>\n<p>And I also figured that if it was time for me to get a proper desk, it was also time for me to have a proper way of displaying my own books, which until now have been tucked away in a cupboard since my bookshelves are already overflowing with all the books by other people I love or am planning to read.  So my writing desk now holds a collection of the various editions of my three published books.  Here&#8217;s hoping some day I&#8217;ll fill all three shelves with them!<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blogpics\/desk2013books.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Share: have you made any recent purchases that you&#8217;re excited about?  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers get excited about different sorts of things than other people: imaginary folks who start talking to them in the middle of the night, pens, a chance to go to some exotic or &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/things-writers-get-excited-about-a-k-a-my-new-desk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}