Why A Whiteboard?

I have NOT gotten this question yet, not in a comment on the internet. The Beloved and Slightly Sarcastic notSpouse has asked it in person, and as they have a bit more of a view inside my home office, the explanation was a lot simpler.

The whiteboard is a 100 cm by 75 cm whiteboard that sits on my wall and faces a door that opens into my office. On that door is a bulletin board. Between the two of them I have a great deal of the planning information for writing projects and my writing itself. It stretches between three different maps of Britannia, a calendar, a timeline for The Red Dragon, and then the whiteboard itself. That whiteboard has five different writing projects, their checklists, and a checklist about things to do with my writing. For unrelated reasons, there’s also a list of things to do for fun (my therapist is encouraging journaling), and a list of Titania’s measurements for a planned dragon costume (poor puppy).

In short, the whiteboard is a large visual reminder of what I need to do, what I haven’t done, and trying to balance work, writing, and life sensibly. It also, unfortunately, does not seem to want to erase.