I have a desk in my bedroom that varies between piled the stuff to clean. For years I used it as craft storage, instead of a real desk, because I often work in the living room. With the end of the school year […]

I find having my mother in-law over is a great incentive to clean up the clutter. She’s one of THOSE people…the ones that barely leave a magazine or piece of mail in sight. Ever. Since I often write in the […]

With its being positioned as it is, I hardly ever use my desk for writing.
I usually take my laptop to the kitchen table during the day, or to bed at night and write from there. The upside of this? My desk might […]

I am currently forced to go through the paperwork clutter just to make sure important things (like mortgage payments) get taken care of. My mountain is getting smaller, but just never goes away. My oldest daughter […]

Jon, I used to do the same thing. Let it go until the task of finding one piece of paper threatened to start a paper avalanche. My work area isn’t always clean, well actually it’s never really CLEAN, but I do try […]

My writing space is a mess, and I agree, it does not benefit my writing. Things get to a critical mass, then I tackle it all at once until I end up with a more manageable mess, but the mess never really seems to […]

Confusing cavalry with Calvary. (Equally annoying to me when used in speech as well in writing.)

I think the error that bothers me the most [because it is the first that comes to mind -- I'm sure I'll start remembering several more as soon as I post this comment] is the use of would of, could of, or should of […]

Hate to admit it, but I’ve made most of those mistakes. I think the their/there mistake irks me the most. One thing you did not mention that annoys the heck out of me is the misuse of myself. I don’t know how […]

Spot on! The most common errors that get under my skin as a reader/writer/editor are all of the above, actually. For me, there is nothing worse than being pulled out of an otherwise really good story because of a […]

What fun! I’ve been posting (and yes, shamefully, writing), sporadically so maybe this will motivate me to get with the program.
I look forward to reading everyone’s stories!