MissMeliss: Escribition

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
– Virginia Woolf
In December, I lost my job. Again. Sort of. It’s kind of the job that won’t die, in the sense that the payment arrangements keep changing, but the job only changes slightly. At the moment, it’s [...]

I’m working in my studio today. Studio. I’m not sure I like that word. It seems pretentious in a way that makes me think people expect me to be creating cad drawings, instead of stringing words together for fun and profit.
But I don’t like referring to this space as an office, either. Fuzzy calls [...]

While my husband insists upon calling my “Word Lounge” the “Abode of Writeyness,” it actually has another moniker that dates back to January when I bought some weight equipment.
As someone who doesn’t keep “normal” hours, and doesn’t particularly like group exercise anyway, I determined that I needed some form of strength training in addition to [...]

I haven’t taken pictures of my new Abode of Writeyness yet, because while the furniture is in there, I won’t be able to afford money for ART until after my conference, and the walls are bare, and the bookshelves aren’t organized…and, and, and…
I did purge all mortgage-related things from my desk. (If anyone needs a [...]

It’s no secret that I’ve been having an issue with my office. When we first moved here, and I was still doing loans, the calming tranquility of walls the color of green tea appealed to me. I had lots of power outlets for my nifty business machines. It was good.
But over the last couple years, [...]