How Changing My Office Set-Up Set Me Up For Failure in Everything To Do With Writing

All because I read a little story on Medium by Tim Denning.

Charles H. Roast
ILLUMINATION
Published in
9 min readNov 4, 2020

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Tim Denning, it’s all your fault. If you hadn’t written that little story on what your office set-up was like, I never would have felt this urge to one-up you.

Your article, The Dream Home Office Setup for a Writer Working from Home (The exact office setup I use to reach millions of monthly readers that can inspire your own work from home office.), inspired me.

In your article, you indicate your simple set-up allowed you to write things that have reached millions of readers.

Well, of course, taking the next step is logical. . .

If you have reached millions of people with your “simple” set-up, then to reach billions of people, I am going to need a much more “not simple” set-up.

Before Tim Denning

Before I read Tim’s article, I was content with the set-up you see in the picture below.

Photo of Author’s “Before Tim Denning” Office set-up, by the author.

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Charles H. Roast
ILLUMINATION

The “real” me, released into the wild, unashamedly blunt, politically incorrect, brutally honest(in a nice way), funny, and still lovable. And still anonymous.