Category: Other Cool Blogs

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During A-to-Z, I discover lot of cool blogs, one of which is “Write with Fey”, a very helpful writing website. To give you an example look at her April 7, 2023 posting “F – Feng Shui + BONUS” (https://www.writewithfey.com/2023/04/f-feng-shui-bonus.html).

Now don’t go turning up your nose at the concept of Feng Shui. While crouched in mysticism and “energy flows”, most of it is basic how the eye follows things around a room and how people move from the entrance of the house to the back of the house. If the house is messy, the house will be tiring to live in and difficult to create in. If things block the way, people will bump into things more – breaking the things and/or themselves.

Ms. Fey’s post gives advice on where to position your desk and how to decorate it.

Me, I have two monitors – absolutely essential when editing. My desk is set up so my back is to the room (bad fung shui), but I can see the door out of the corner of my eye and it faces the front window which is totally covered with blackout curtains – basically creating a lighted wall (good). The second monitor turns me closer to the door. If I didn’t have the window covered, the view would be of a shopping mall parking lot.

I have a middle desk with the primary monitor, keyboard on a lower surface and the upper surface are all my tasks. My left has the second monitor, files, and a printer. The right has a hole then a shelving unit with my research materials.

The image on my computer screen is “Don’t Chase Your Dreams – Humans are persistence predators – follow your dreams at a sustainable pace, until they get tired and lie down.” It is surrounded by pretty vine work. (great fung shui)

I try to clear the central position by the end of each night, but truth to tell, it is never empty. But Spirtuality is getting less messy; I am getting better at controlling piles of work. The left back position – Wealth – behind the second monitor – is a dragon and my con badges. The health position is all my folders of things to do – overstuffed mess. I need to get that better organized. Better than it was, it still isn’t a “happy” place to look at constantly.

I’m missing on the right side “helpful people” – no surprise there. I do have a small piles of notebooks a little further out – so Creativity is within reach, but I need to work for it.

Creating this post and reviewing my desk made me add two beaded roses I created for the Love and Relationship but also doubles in the Creativity section. I’ll need to get a real little vase for them to keep them in front of the books.

Clean work area, but with touches of beauty, memories, and encouragement.

Connect with “Write with Fey” – lots of her posts are interesting and helpful. This is just one example.