A Writer’s Hierarchy of Needs: How to Do Our Best Work

A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox; you’ll love it.   Where to Do Your Best Work Yesterday, I disturbed the spider ecosystem thriving on Tiny Porch (TP), the official name of the screened porch of my backyard Tiny House Office (THO). My THO is a small office I built in my backyard; it’s where I do my best work. (You can read the back story on it here.) I’d been meaning to take care of that spider situation all summer. But I’d been avoiding it, instead breezing by it with blinders on. Kidding myself about the growing number of feathery webs. Ignoring the small, growing piles of spider trash on the floor—the chewier parts of a fly, the undigested husk of a beetle. Spiders can be real pigs. Then I started […]

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