Well, it must be time for me to clean my desk and surrounding area. There are contest entries, novel manuscripts, unfinished magazine articles, & sections of newspapers with "keep" penned in margins - buried under other current projects. On top of all are a dictionary and thesaurus.

That's not everything either. Snippets of paper (reminder notes) are on the floor, in the nook between my computer speaker and a storage box. The bits of paper are also taped to nearby walls and to my monitor.

I missed a contest I wanted to enter - just because the flier wasn't within view, but buried in the literary mess.

Sooo, off I go. By this time next week, I should be more organized.

Do YOU need to organize and clean around your writing area?

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