Guest Post – Joe Hesch and his Writing Space

I wish I wrote more than I do. One reason I probably don’t is because I have no set place or time that I do it. Yes, I know, completely my fault. What writing I do I’ve accomplished in not one, but five separate spaces.

Space one is my bed. I keep a notebook and my iPad next to me at night, so if I get an idea for a poem before I fall asleep or as I’m waking up, I scratch them down right away. I’ve also written more than a few poems right here in bed. (I’m actually writing this essay there right now.)

Another spot that I use, particularly when I’m on deadline for submitting a story to my fiction group, is my living room lounge chair. (Bad Joe!). Yep, right in front of the television, which I can somehow ignore when I’m in the writing groove.

I have set myself up two actual writing spaces in the back of the house. One is a desk I’ve placed in front of a big window in our walkout basement facing into our back yard.The other is a spare bedroom exactly two stories above that space.  Same window, same yard, higher altitude, more leaves.

Finally (and let’s just keep this between you and me) I have written more than half of my poems at my desk at work. At 7:30 every morning, while I wait for the computer to fire up all it’s various circuits, sign-ons and applications in the dark and, except for me,  empty office, I pull a pad in front of the keyboard, illuminated only by a desk lamp, and write a haiku or something that occurred to me on the commute and/or the walk from the parking lot.

So there you go, these are the creative campgrounds for this nomadic old writer guy.

Joe Hesch is a writer and poet who lives near and works in his hometown of Albany, New York. After 30 years in the news business and institutional and government public affairs, a brush with his mortality convinced him to set free his inner writer. He began to write stories and poetry for himself (in addition to his work for The Man) and hasn’t looked back. His work has appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Wanderings Magazine, With Painted Words, Foliate Oak, Falling Star Magazine and other publications. He posts poems and stories-in-progress on his blog, A Thing For Words