PBW has a nice entry on being friends with the page today, and I liked a couple of things she said because they’re so true for me. Wearing comfy clothes, check. Because anything too tight or scratchy or whatever is distracting. In the winter when it’s chilly I like to wear my spa socks to keep my feet cozy, too. Enjoying the solitude of writing because there isn’t enough of it anywhere else, check. I’m a solitary person who never gets to be alone. The page is my refuge. Writing is my refuge, period, really. It’s where I can go to be wild and crazy, and when life is wild and crazy retreating to writing is more essential and comforting than ever.

But she did mention transitions, and I thought about the fact that we prod our difficult toddler from one activity to another by using a transitional object. The duck for bathtime, and so on. Nothing wrong with using a transitional object to get into writing. Writing socks, or whatever works for you. But I do think writing should be comfortable, a welcome place to go to, not something scary. Whatever it takes to make it feel that way.