Describe Your Writing Space

(Please, all you authors and writers, professional or 'would-be', please email your description of your own 'writing space' to me right away at authorguy@live.com.au and I'll post it here immediately)


Walk four steps from the kitchen and you'll reach a heavy polished brown wooden door. Open this door, walk inside, and you'll find yourself inside a medium-sized room. My writing room.
  First off, on the direct opposite side of the room, we have a window overlooking the gardens on the side of the house and some other houses down the street. To the left of this window, is my desk. On my desk sits my black laptop computer, right in the centre of the desk. Around it are three writing notebooks, a journal, a cupholder with exactly six black pens, three blue ones, and two red ones. In the drawer of this desk are my seven 'Ideas Notebooks', a list of email addressess of publishers, and spare notepad paper.
  Next to this desk, we have my three bookshelves. One holds all my fiction books I like reading and some DVD's. The second (this is right next to the left of my desk) holds my 'writing books' - Strunk & White's Elements of Style, Writing Hannah: On Writing for Children by Libby Gleeson, Macquaire Dictionary, Making Picture Books by Libby Gleeson, The New Writers' Survival Guide by Dianne Bates, The 2009/2010 Australian Writers' Marketplace, The Artful Edit by Susan Bell, Writing like a Writer by Libby Gleeson, How the Aliens from Alpha Centurai Invaded my Maths Class and Turned me Into a Writer by Jackie French, How to Self-Edit to Improve Writing Skills by Di Bates, Everything I Know About Writing by John Marsden, On Writing by Stephen King, Roger's Thesauraus, 78 Reasons Why Your Book Might Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might by Pat Walsh, and many, many, many others (shall include a full-list at a later date).
  I keep my shelf of 'writing books' right next to my desk for inspiration for, say, in case I might get stuck while editing, or revising, or not sure of the correct grammar for a particular sentence, or if I might just want some inspiration to keep on going, I can just easily pull one of my 'writing books' out and everything is fine!
 
 And on the third shelf, which is furtherest away from my desk, holds the books I have written. I have four copies of each book, which makes 21 in total, and these also help me if I get stuck and keep saying "Ahh! I hate writing! I can never finish this book!!", then I can easily just look at these books and then I think, "Well, I finished those ones. I must be able to finish this one!". And, so I can (at times!).

On the walls of my study, I have five things: a poster for my first book The Writers: A Collection of Australian Writers' Biographies; a poster of the book 'Nanny Piggings and the Runaway Lion', signed by the author, R.A. Spratt, when I met her at Voices on the Coast last week; and I have, framed, the autographs of Morris Gleitzman, Gary Crew, and Dianne Bates. I also have a tiny shelf on my wall, which holds the two awards I have: two Kingaroy Esteidford Awards for 1st Prize and 2nd Prize in the Literary Section.
  In my filing cabinet, which has three drawers, I have a specific system: Top Drawer is for manuscripts of ANY type. Second Drawer is filled with notes and folders of research for books and stories and essays, and Bottom Drawer holds my 'industry information'.
  Well, blog readers, I think that's pretty much all there is to my office. Check in tomorrow for a full list of my 'writing books', and 'favourite books'.