Your Writing should Creak like Floorboards, not Sparkle like Diamonds

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Don’t ever put your living room in the middle of your house.
A room that someone walks through hundreds of times a day while you're sitting there trying to write.

But if, by way of design, this is absolutely necessary, at the very least, slop down some carpet — so that you don’t hear the crackle and groan of the wooden…