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Most of us prefer to write without a surround sound of office noise. But being alone, day in day out can be a lonely business. Finding the ‘right’ writing companions and a shared office can give you the best of both worlds.
There is a hackneyed image of the writer hunched over a typewriter in a booklined study or freezing in a garret in the pale grey sludge of dawn. Silence and solitude, the image says, are the necessary accoutrements of the committed author. Having recently rented an office with two other writers where we meet day in, day out to bash out our novels, pausing to make tea and procrastinate in five-minute bursts I’m beginning to think the exact opposite is true.