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Introducing – Where I Write!

I tend to do my best writing in public primarily because I’m much more productive when I can’t access Internet or log onto Wifi. I’ll usually re-read and revise a day’s work from the comfort of my own home that same night, so I can sleep on the themes I’ll tackle the next day. All of Match Made in Manhattan was written while I was living in Paris, and I can still remember where I typed certain scenes (The Tom chapter: a crêperie-café down the block from my apartment. The correspondence with Older Luke from Istanbul: a bench in the Tuileries Garden.)

Photo: Once upon a time I lived and wrote in this old house in Paris that was covered with vines . . . C’est chic, non?

Photo: The café in the 9e arrondissement where literary dreams and dreamy crêpes were made, and where Tom was born.

Photo: Yes, that was actually my view of the Louvre when I conceived of the culturally and artistically curious correspondence between Alison and Older Luke.

A lot of my current WIP has been written on the roof of my building in Manhattan or in the Danish café a few blocks from my apartment. I’m not really picky about which scenes get written in which environments; I’ll take any free chair in a café, park, library, etc. and pick up wherever I left off. I generally only write when I have 2 or more hours of uninterrupted quiet time—though between work, life, and family, that’s been pretty unpredictable the last few years. As long as my laptop is within reach, I write whenever I can, wherever I am.

Photo: An old #bookstagram from the rooftop of my apartment building in New York City, where I finished my Match Made in Manhattan copy edits and proofreading.

Photo: Joe & The Juice near Grand Central, where the first half of my WIP has come to life.