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Post by Suzy on Apr 27, 2014 14:42:06 GMT -5
On my walk right out to the tip of Cap d'Antibes today, I saw the house where Jules Verne wrote Around the World In 80 days and other stories. A beautiful house perched on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean. I can imagine how inspirational this setting would have been and how it would have fired his imagination.  |
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Post by Becca Mills on Apr 27, 2014 15:52:56 GMT -5
Jeez, who'd want to live there? What a crappy view!  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 16:09:14 GMT -5
Ha. It took him 80 days to write Around the World and some stories? I could write that baby in 50 days in that dump.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 16:41:48 GMT -5
So incredibly beautiful!!
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Post by vrabinec on Apr 28, 2014 7:47:20 GMT -5
I'm not sure I'd get much writing done. What would motivate someone to write when they're already in paradise?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 7:50:51 GMT -5
I love finding famous authors' houses and trying to imagine what it would be like living and working there. But I think I have to agree - how could one write in there when it exists in paradise??? Although getting up every day, opening up the windows, and looking out on that scene might be very refreshing and inspiring!
Keep having fun, Suzy!
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Post by lindymoone on Apr 28, 2014 9:40:12 GMT -5
The only author's house I've been in is Hemingway's in Key West. Mostly remember all the cats.
I am looking out on the Aegean from my perched-on-a-hill desk, right now, and everyone is always after me to get up and go outside. I often take my beautiful view and sea breezes for granted, I'm afraid, and live too much in my head.
Perhaps Verne did, too.
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Post by vrabinec on Apr 28, 2014 10:01:33 GMT -5
The only two author's houses I've seen are Edgar Allan Poe's old place in, an ugly little red brick row house, and a house Victor Hugo either owned or stayed in in Luxembourg. The Hugo house had a great view of Vienden Castle.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 10:04:42 GMT -5
When we travel, my husband and I will always pretend to pick out a perfect place for my "writing house". In my pretend land, I've got a small house in Umbria, a very small condo in San Francisco, a penthouse overlooking Hyde Park in London, an extremely cute carriage house in Charleston SC, a houseboat on a canal in Amsterdam...it's tons of fun to imagine.
I can see where a place like Jules Verne's house would inspire his imagination. What wonderful worlds he created!! It's only fair his world was wonderful outside of his window!
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Post by Pru Freda on Apr 28, 2014 10:55:40 GMT -5
A whole house? I'd just love a room to myself to write in.
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Post by vrabinec on Apr 28, 2014 11:08:18 GMT -5
A whole house? I'd just love a room to myself to write in.  Yeah, somebody's got to clean the house, and I don't want servants. (Can't stand anyone around all day.) |
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Post by Daniel on Apr 28, 2014 15:44:30 GMT -5
I don't think living in paradise would slow down my writing. I would love being able to take a break and enjoy the beauty whenever I wanted. It would feel like being on vacation all the time.
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Post by Becca Mills on Apr 28, 2014 21:03:39 GMT -5
I don't think living in paradise would slow down my writing. I would love being able to take a break and enjoy the beauty whenever I wanted. It would feel like being on vacation all the time. Me too! I'd settle for a university town in the Upper Midwest, though.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 21:47:08 GMT -5
I don't think living in paradise would slow down my writing. I would love being able to take a break and enjoy the beauty whenever I wanted. It would feel like being on vacation all the time. Me too! I'd settle for a university town in the Upper Midwest, though. LOL. You could join Madi in Madison. Although I have hopes of persuading her to move to Portland eventually. I think this past winter might have given me a boost. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Apr 28, 2014 21:52:05 GMT -5
Me too! I'd settle for a university town in the Upper Midwest, though. LOL. You could join Madi in Madison. Although I have hopes of persuading her to move to Portland eventually. I think this past winter might have given me a boost. My family is from Madison. I lived there for 15 years and still have a sister and cousins there. I'd move back in a heartbeat. Such a great town. Though what with climate change, I'd rather be further north. I'm thinking of the UP. <earmuff smiley> |
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Post by lindymoone on Apr 29, 2014 5:49:36 GMT -5
A whole house? I'd just love a room to myself to write in. How do you cope? How do you crank out those mysteries with no private space? My little office is an open space off the kitchen overlooking the living room, which, in turn, overlooks the sea. It was a shared space until this past fall, when my husband finally realized the desktop was mine mine mine, and we moved another desk into the living room for him. He set up the old desktop computer there and uses that and his tablet for all his daring engineering work and surfing. I would still like a completely private space, but this is pretty good. Plus, I might never come out. Might peek out one day to find he'd left me weeks before... |
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Yeah, somebody's got to clean the house, and I don't want servants. (Can't stand anyone around all day.)
