Dex Quire is a Seattle writer

DQ's writing aids or how to write while sitting at your desk:

changing 3 way light bulbs, clean yr messy desk, floss, read Spanish lit, lose & find and lose again 10-year-old Nordstrom loafers, practice Japanese at the greeting level, domo, domo, microwave frozen meals, iPod rock up to 1993, blues all decades, classical guitar, Mozart, Villa Lobos, calling younger brother at work, vacuum studio, dust studio, wash all of roommates dishes, pluck books from shelves that have nothing to do with yr subject (scholarly procrastination), get sentimental about family, the occassional smoke, calling PMA to see what he is reading, ditto Rol, calling Ion to see how his alternative fuel project is going, flip on talk radio, read blogs, interview myself, wonder what I'm doing, sharpen pencils with pocket knife outside in back yard, worry about the immensly tall, shallow-rooted hemlock trees crashing down on the studio on windy afternoons, make peanut butter and jelly tortilla for son, flip through coffee table books especially the ones on torture implements, Pompeii and Renaissance charcol sketches...