Where Do Writers Write?

Most readers are curious about writers' writing habits, including where they write. In recent (2/4/11 and 2/6/11) Writer's Almanac entries, there were notes about two unusual writing location habits. First, Robert Coover once spent a month alone in a primitive cabin on a "remote Canadian island," just reading and writing. I think everyone who writes, and especially those who have been fortunate to go on writing retreats of various types, fantasizes about this kind of opportunity for complete, uninterrupted focus on one's writing. Whether most people could actually do something like Coover did is another question. Second, Eric Partridge went to and wrote at the same desk in the British Library every single day for 50 years. There is something admirable and appealing about such pure, focused, lifelong discipline.