Creating a writer’s office
Early this morning I was driving home when the phone rang.
“I just wanted to make sure we were still on for 8:30 this morning,” said my client.
“Absolutely,” I said. “I’m on my way into the office.”
I answered her honestly, but I felt a little funny. My office is in my living room. It’s precisely 15 percent of my 400-square-foot apartment near downtown San Diego. I know the numbers because I just measured for the home-office deduction on my taxes.
I never hide the fact that I have a home office. My clients have heard my cat meow at my feet, and they’ve had to wait a second for me to answer the door when a neighbor drops by. These days no one seems to care if one works from home. But I’d still enjoy an official office sometimes.
Yesterday I stopped by my post office box for a moment, and I ran across the sign in this picture. In suite 205-E, a writer has an office. And outside Trader Joe’s Grocery Store, she has this sign. I keep envisioning a sign here at Avenue Z. Would I just stick one in the window, right under the Christmas cards I haven’t taken down yet? How about a nice yard sign with a stake?
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D.J. on 29 Jan 2008 at 1:29 pm #
Curious?
“Early this morning I was driving home when the phone rang.”
From where?
D.J.
Beth on 29 Jan 2008 at 1:38 pm #
Err. You, my dear friend, will soon be in big trouble.
Erin on 29 Jan 2008 at 4:19 pm #
Was I the neighbor who knocked on your door?? Ohh I’m famous and in a blog
WOO HOO
EST on 30 Jan 2008 at 5:06 am #
Dentists, doctors, fortune tellers, and other small business people used to hang a sign in the front window of the house when they were “in” and take it down when they were “out.” Does your office have a front window on the street?
Beth on 30 Jan 2008 at 11:10 am #
Indeed it does have a front window to the street. Perhaps I’ll fashion a nice sign… but what if I’m never “out”?
EST on 01 Feb 2008 at 10:46 am #
So take the sign down when you want to be “out.” It’s an option most of us would love.