About Heather Smith Meloche
My MAIN Workspace
My main workspace, my study, is a nightmare for most people who walk in. I’d say it’s way too messy for public viewing, but I totally own that I’m a slob and tend to organize in piles. I weirdly know where to find something by which strata the object is within a pile.
My other workspaces
If I find with the right earplugs, I can write anywhere. It’s like a Dr. Seuss story — “Oh, The Places I Write.” In the car. In a bar. On the rocks. Without socks. I’ve learned to write wherever life drags me to get the story done.
My WRiting Rituals
I always have coffee very close by when I write, and when the hours at my computer are getting longer, chocolate is a necessary reinforcement. But my most common writing staples are my Jack Russell/Chihuahua mix, Blitzen, and my super mutt mix, Ridley, who have dutifully laid next to me for thousands of pages of writing while I talk to them, talk to myself, and talk to my characters. They never judge.😉