Describe your desk
My desk is not where I would like it. It is in a bad position, feng shui-wise, and it's in my bedroom, since I don't yet have a backyard office tiny home. It has very few metal parts. The slide-out drawer is a combination of front legs with wooden wheels, and peg-in-groove sliders. I used to have a beautiful white mid-century modern desk, but it was too big to fit in the bedroom, so we donated it to a thrift store.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up in the Bay Area (San Francisco) California. At the age of 15, I went away to boarding school, where I studied great works of literature. Although boarding school taught me about good content, it was Mrs. King and Mr. Hom, my junior high school English teachers, who gave me the tools I needed to write. They forced us to diagram sentences out of the classic text book "Warriner's English Grammar and Composition." Diagramming sentences taught you all the rules of grammar. It helped identify fragments and run-on sentences. I hope they are still teaching sentence diagrams. These days, they may be teaching emoticons instead.
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