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QUESTION: If you could turn any room or building in the world into your writing studio, what would you choose and why?

ANSWER: The sitting room in my apartment in Ghent, which is a section of Norfolk where the townhouses are Victorian. It was paneled oak, and the woodwork was beautiful. I had no money at the time for furniture, so I sat in the window seat (using, as a desk, a plastic cafeteria tray I'd swiped from Old Dominion), wrote very bad poetry, and dreamed of the day I'd have a house and a book of stories. I loved that apartment so much that I gave it to one of the characters in a story I wrote, "Horses." I'd love to buy that townhouse and renovate it totally.