Forget exercise, growing my nails, and learning how to cook a decent roast chicken. My goal for 2010 is to learn how to write at home and on a schedule . It is time. As some of you know, I just read Stephen King's ON WRITING. King believes that a writing space "really needs only one thing: a door which you are willing to shut." This is actually a bigger deal than it appears to be. I think one reason I always end up in libraries and coffee shops is that they provide the happy illusion that I am not alone with my work. I think I have been unwilling to shut the door. King says: "I think we're actually talking about creative sleep. Like your bedroom, your writing room should be private, a place where you go to dream. Your schedule -- in at about the same time every day, out when your thousand words are on paper or disk -- exists in order to habituate yourself, to make yourself ready to dream just as you make yourself ready to sleep by going to bed at roughly ...