Being an author, I'm trying to think of what all to put in my backyard office for my voluntarily and unpaid self-employment. I have wall clock and chairs so far. What else should I put in there? Will you all tell me? I wish I had some images of it.

Really first you gotta think about what you’re going to wear while you write. Your look is important. Maybe you want to dress old school, corduroy sports coats with the patches on the elbows, turtleneck. Jeans could be good, Possibly chinos, But it has to be a dark corduroy jacket.

Or u might want to go all Gonzo…. Aloha shirt, Panama hat, aviator sunglasses, bottle of tequila, maybe a gun or two, and really a ton of drugs.

if that doesn’t work for you, get a white suit, like Tom Wolfe. Or maybe a dark suit, white shirt, bowtie and a hat like Truman Capote.The look is important…

And of course you’ve got to get out and about because it doesn’t matter how you look if nobody sees you.

Make sure to tell everybody that you’re an author, And that you’re working on your first book, “I Have Wall Clock and Chairs, So Far; a Voluntarily Unemployed Person’s Journey of Self Discovery”.

And, yes,I’m being sarcastic…If you plan to write, you should be planning what you’ll write, not planning your backyard office.

The thing is, When you actually start writing, you’ll clear a space on the nearest available table, plug in your laptop, pull up whatever chair is there, and you’ll write. In an hour or so, you may look for a pillow to put behind your back, or fuss around with a lamp to get the light right. You may take all your stuff out of the living room and put it on the kitchen table. A lot of writers write in the kitchen.

The following Tuesday, You may try and find a better chair. You might even go to IKEA to buy an inexpensive table to write on. Two years later, one piece at a time, you will have set up a space in your house where you can write comfortably.

You cannot plan this in advance, because you don’t know what’s will work for you in advance. Your workspace, Like your work, Is a work in progress.

Back when I was writing trashy paperbacks, I sat on a comfy couch with my typewriter on the coffee table and pounded out twenty pages a day. I had an oak desk that I’d stripped, stained and finished myself. It was piled high with books and files and bills, And I never used it.

For a few years I didn’t even write at home. I wrote at either a study carrel in the college library, on the other side of the stairs in the cafeteria, or at a coffee shop like Starbucks. Pro tip: It’s useful to write where there’s nothing to do but write. When you’ve used a place for a while, people get to know you and you tend to conversate. When that happens, it’s time to move on.

These days, I write in the living room sitting in a wingback chair. I have two C-tables, One for my iPad, One for coffee and snack plates, with a guitar and piano in easy reach.