ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to pose a very similar set of questions in relation to the practice of imaginative forms of writing. It demonstrates that the interior space of composition is something more than the three-dimensional space enclosed by the walls of the study. The manner in which interior spaces are decorated and the nature of their organisation and orientation are critical influences on how writing happens, is prevented from happening or is envisaged as happening. Interior concerns, both material and psychological, are contingent upon time and place; how the interior matters to writing – and to character – must attend to the span of an authorial career and to its unique patterning of everyday life. The interior is always a canvas in the working out of identity; its significance is never fixed for it is always being refreshed and reassembled, allowing it to be affective and affected.
