People need a place to think, their own “thinking-spot.”

Here’s one of my thinking-spots, about a ten-minute drive from my home, on the shores of Lake Washington, in a city called Kirkland. (It’s not my best thinking-spot—I want to keep that one a secret!)

It has all of my favorite thinking-spot criteria:

  • Closeness
  • Water (visual)
  • Water (audio)
  • Water (smell)
  • A place to sit
  • Few people
  • Good parking
  • All-season availability

I go there about once a week.

All writers need thinking-spots. All husbands need thinking-spots. All thinkers need thinking-spots.

Everyone needs thinking-spots.