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Writing Space
Finding your writing Zen
Is it a myth or fact that writers need a dedicated writing space?
Some of my fellow writers have a particular spot, place, park, chair, or café where they can sit and produce their best work.
For inspiration, I visited the smallest property on the National Trusts books. It is a place called Hawkers Hut in Cornwall, UK.
Robert Stephen Hawker was vicar of Morwenstow from 1834 to 1875. Regarded as being a good minor poet and ballad writer (including Cornwall’s unofficial anthem “, The Song of the Western Men”) is remembered today for being an eccentric.
A small cliff-top hut, Hawker’s Hut was built around 1844 from driftwood and shipwreck timbers, particularly from the Alonzo. A small rectangular hut with a stable door built into the cliff and overlooking the sea. The interior has a slate floor and fixed timber seats, and the roof of the hut is covered with turf.
Among other things, Hawker used his hut for writing poetry, coast watching, and smoking opium.
Both Alfred Tennyson and Charles Kingsley are known to have visited Hawker in his tiny self-built hut, and one can easily imagine them sharing the pipe, staring out at the ocean and talking about the mysteries of life.
