• Best of #WriteSpace Vol. 3: Bless this Mess.

Best of #WriteSpace Vol. 3: Bless this Mess.

Sometimes a little clutter goes a long way, but a lot of clutter goes even farther. Writing can be a messy business. While there were a few overcrowded desks sent in when we asked you to show us your #writespace, our own Garth Risk Hallberg certainly had the grimiest computer.

That said, here are our favorite cluttered desks:

The editors over at Classic Penguin would like you to know that that ethereal green light is not in fact a fairy, but a banker’s lamp. Though they do work a little magic in this #writespace, turning those endless piles of paper into books.

Alexander Chee says that this is the most organized his desk has been in at least a year. While those stacks and stacks of papers and books certainly look organized to me, I’d still put this desk in the pro-clutter camp. Can you imagine what it must have looked like while he was writing Edinburgh? I’m thinking it must’ve looked like this only more so.

Grant Clauser uses two computers. But he has good reason to, by his own admission: “I have a short attention span.” Extra points should be awarded for the potted plant and a window sill overtaken by knick-knackery.

Source: themillions.com