From my cluttered desk...

I sit at a desk cluttered with the dull residue of my life. Bills, statements, envelopes, and stamps crowd the forefront in an effort to remind me of obligations. Beyond that, references to keep knowledge at my fingertips from dictionaries to writing guides. Poked in and out of cubbies, items of inspiration crowd to provide a shake out of writers block or out of a life block. Some of my favorite tools include:

• The Writer's Block by Jason Rekulak
• The Observation Deck by Naomi Epel
• The Pocket Muse by Monica Wood
  
• A couple of name dictionaries
• A rhyming dictionary
• Thesaurus and Synonym dictionaries
• The Oxford Dictionary

I once heard artists were disorganized and cluttered creatures and hope that description covers literary artists as well. How can one derive inspiration in an austere, clean environment? Therefore, I embrace my world of clutter and curl up in the crumpled papers that litter my feet.