I have poetry to write about but find myself not quite in the right frame of mind. So instead, I give you 10 Kick-Ass Secret Passage Bookshelves guaranteed to make you drool and fill you with bookish lust and envy. Aren’t those two of the seven deadly sins? I take no responsibility if your soul ends up precariously balanced because you commit those two sins. In effect, view at your own risk.
And when you are done with that, check out How Authors Write, an article that looks at how authoring tools from typewriters to word processors to Power Point slides have influenced writers. One wonders what the next spur to creativity will be?
Oh I love the secret passageways – I want one immediately, although I think any doorway in my current bookshelves would just deposit a person outside the house! But I adore them nevertheless. And I quite understand – poetry definitely requires a particular frame of mind to write about. I’ll look forward to your words when the moment is right.
Litlove, aren’t they fun? I’m sure Mr. Litlove is up to the challenge of building you one
I could be quite happy spending time in a secret passageway book room. I wonder if I can conigure my house to make one….sort of like a priest’s hole? I’m all for hiding away with a book!
Danielle, wouldn’t that be fun to have a secret reading area behind a bookcase? I would be fun to go there and hide away for hours.
The public library I went to as a child had a secret passageway book-room in the children’s section. It’s where they had story time.
Bonnie, oh lucky you! What a magical treat that must have been!
I loved the end of the How authors write article when he says “Those things [ie the tools of the writer's trade like typewriters] are real, and what one can do with them exciting”. I and a few friends profess to finding notebooks and pens exciting. None of us is a writer-writer but most of us are librarians and notebooks just appeal to us – even if it is a notebook app on the iPad! Which is a bit off the track, but that’s what your post inspired in me today!
whisperinggums, it is fascinating how the tools for writing inspire different ways of writing. I too love pens and notebooks as do a number of my coworkers. I have so many different bottles of ink and kinds of fountain pens and more blank notebooks than I know what to do with yet I still crave more!