I think all writers pick out a special place where they can write. Sometimes they have to sit at the desk and look out the window, at the trees, or the ocean, or just the street in front of them. Some need absolute silence before they can get a word down on the page. I’ve always needed a lot of noise and commotion going on around me. I think it’s all the sounds, the rhythm, and that particular concert of motion that just gets me going. I love writing on the subway for example, and also on Amtrak. . .. For some reason, I also love writing at construction sites – it’s all that heaped up earth, and pipes and concrete and banging around... One of my very favorite poems was written at a construction site at 11th and Spruce Street in Philadelphia. My thinking is – no matter where you write, just choose a spot where that creative energy can really pick you up and send you someplace … …l….
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