How and where I write Jane Austen wrote by hand on small sheets of paper hiding them if anyone came into the room. Anthony Trollope paid his manservant to call him at 5.30am so he could get in three hours writing before he left home for his day job. Proust wrote in a cork lined room and J G Ballard in a nondescript suburban house. I have a friend who composes her best work in coffee shops, because she doesn’t like the silence at home. I am lucky in having a study. I type at an old table with a Formica top. On it sits my principal tool, an iMac with a 27” screen. Why so big? Because I can have three A4 equivalent pages displayed at a time, making moving between documents, or parts of the same document easy. I can have my browser open on one side...
Author: Simon Evans
Simon Evans is a Londoner who lives in Wiltshire, whence he retired after working in California for many years. He has written extensively. A book of WW2 letters, edited by him, has recently been published. His short stories have been read on local radio, and he has contributed to various radio and stage dramas. He is currently finishing a humorous book on the attempts of a small southeastern country to build a railway.
Simon has also written science fiction stories and is half way through a novel about Mars, seen from an unusual perspective.