It’s ideal, of course, to have a great writing space but a lot of excellent writers have done well without it. Here’s what Henning Mankell, author the best-selling Wallander detective novels, tod Metro recently:
“I have been forced to write anywhere—I don’t need a particular desk or view. When I was 20, I was in Stockholm, living in an empty apartment, and I had to sit on the kitchen floor and use the oven door as a table as there was a light in the oven. I wrote a play on that door, so I can write anywhere now.”
Sounds a little like a Monty Python sketch, doesn’t it—“we were so poor I had to write in the oven…” but the point is that the only things you really need are what’s in your head and something to write with, so don’t let the lack of a dedicated space stop you.
(For tips on writing--anywhere--see "Your Writing Coach," published by Nicholas Brealey and available from your local bookshop or Amazon and other online and offline booksellers.)