I like to think that I have several “other desks’. It’s a frame of mind for me. At my primary desk I have everything I need to do anything. This also means that there can be lots of distractions and it means that I can easily get overwhelmed at the number of things I have to do because they can all be done in that context.

I’ve recently discovered that it’s helpful though to go to some other place to perform a specific task. One morning I needed to focus on preparing a Sunday School lesson so I took just the materials I needed and drove to a nearby lake; for a few hours, me desk was a picnic table under a shelter in a pouring rain storm. Sometimes if I have something I really want to focus on, I’ll go our front porch or the hammock in our back yard for the explicit purpose of reading it on my Xoom or Kindle–those are my front-porch-wicker-chair and backyard-hammock desks. Sometimes I’ll take the laptop to a coffee shop–and the table there becomes my desk. Sometimes my other desk is a seat on an airplane or even the driver’s seat in my truck.

Ultimately though, the benefit comes from a combination of: 1) a change of scenery, 2) elimination of distractions, and 3) resolution to perform a specific task at that specific place and time.

You hit in the nail on my idea, I am not sure they will be the expected stuff or not, but the stuff I am interested in share. I especially want to make the blog part as fun as the fiction and non fiction writing.

Stay tuned, I hope it gets fun