Writing in public
I love writing. Obviously. Here I am, writing in my blog again, so I must like writing quite a lot. In fact, I’d like nothing more than to be able to give up my day job and spend my days in my pyjamas, listening to rock music and writing my next best selling novel or Hollywood screenplay. For now, however, I’m stuck behind my coffee bar, watching people sit in my coffee shop, writing.
A lot of people like to write in public, for reasons that I’ve never quite been able to figure out. JK Rowling herself wrote the first Harry Potter book in a café in Edinburgh, because the flat she was living in at the time had no heating. So at least she had a reason for getting out the notebook or laptop in public and scribbling down her inner thoughts and ideas.
Maybe all those people I see tapping away at their computer keys or scratching away on notepaper are hoping they will become the next JK Rowling – and are hoping that a coffee shop environment will give them the same kind of inspiration it gave her. I think it’s far more likely that they want an attractive member of the opposite sex to see them and think; “Wow. They must be a really interesting and sensitive person to be sitting in a coffee shop writing poetry/plays/prose”. It’s more likely they’re scribbling down their shopping list or revising the notes from their manual handling courses, but that pretty girl in the corner who keeps catching your eye doesn’t know that, eh?
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