This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.
Taking inspiration from The Guardian's 'Writers' Rooms', Sky Arts' 'The Write Place' and Book Chick City's excellent 'Where Stories Are Made'; My Writing Room is a fabulous fortnightly event, in which some of our favourite authors show us where the writerly magic happens, and tell us a little about their writing life.
Today we bring you the writing room of Victoria Connelly – author of the delightfully charming 'Molly's Millions' and 'A Weekend With Mr Darcy' (which our Debs rated 10/10)
My Writing Room by Victoria Connelly
This is my corner of the room we call our study but it’s not just a study – it houses all sorts of things from a wardrobe to an exercise bike, and used to be the home of my two low-flying budgies as well!
My husband is a landscape painter and we fight for wall space all the time. Where I’ll want to put another bookcase, he’ll want to hang a painting. It’s a constant battle but I love that our house is filled with beautiful books and paintings. There’s always something fabulous to read or look at.
I find pictures very useful for my writing and often surround myself with images. I framed a montage of photographs of Venice when I was writing a novel set there and have several Venetian masks smiling down at me. I’m writing about Jane Austen addicts at the moment so I have ‘I Love Darcy’ items all over the place and the image of Colin Firth everywhere.
My desk is an old Victorian stripped pine one which I got in Yorkshire years ago. I have an ancient printer on it and a sacred pot of pens which my husband gets into trouble is he dares disturb! And there are a few writer necessities too like my glasses, a lip balm, note books and a mug. Oh, and a plastic stegosaurus – inspiration for a children’s book I keep meaning to write.
I try to write a thousand words a day and often use voice recognition software because years of writing have taken their toll and I suffer with RSI. I also like sitting in a squashy armchair downstairs with my pink laptop. The keyboard is lighter to the touch and I seem able to write more on it but I find my dog (who occupies the chair opposite) a wonderful distraction!
Thanks, Victoria!
A Weekend With Mr Darcy can be bought from here
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