Writing desk

A writing desk or bureau acts as a kind of compact office. Traditionally, a writing desk is for writing letters by hand. It usually has a top that closes to hide current work, which makes the room containing it look tidy, maintains privacy, and protects the work. The closing top may contain several joints so that it can roll closed, or may simply fold closed. The writing surface (or place for lap-top) typically folds down (perhaps being the lid) or slides out, to preserve the compact size when closed. They often have small drawers or "pigeon holes".

Modern writing desks are designed for laptop computers of the 21st century. They are typically too small for most desktop computers or a printer.

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Megan Park Feels Kind of Bad for Making You Cry

New York Magazine 19 Sep 2024

She’s not thinking about that when she’s writing a screenplay, though; instead, she works from a place of wanting a career do-over ... How do you write Gen-Z characters so well? Where do you find inspiration and how are you making sure they don’t feel out of touch? ... How do you get in the mind-set to write? ... I hate writing on a desk....

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With age comes beauty: Historic gem in Ironwoods Park delights visitors of all ages

Yahoo Daily News 18 Sep 2024

It’s no different inside the Historic Oxford Schoolhouse, says April Bishop ... Often, the adult visitors generate the narrative. “They say, ‘I had this desk’ or ‘That photo looks like my schoolhouse’,” Bishop said ... Docents, like Bishop, provide information and give lessons in arithmetic, history and spelling at antique desks. Writing is done on slates ... 7....

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We need to return to the world of Sept. 12, 2001

Jewish World Review 18 Sep 2024

I had so many ideas for this column. But every time I started to write, the sentences would fall flat ... I was sitting at the same desk I'd been at on Sept ... It was the same keyboard I'd used to write an email to my brother Michael in Manhattan after the family couldn't get through to him on the phone ... This was the story. This is the story ... That world did....

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Returning to the world of Sept. 12, 2001

The Danville News 18 Sep 2024

I had so many ideas for this column. But every time I started to write, the sentences would fall flat ... I was sitting at the same desk I’d been at on Sept ... It was the same keyboard I’d used to write an email to my brother Michael in Manhattan after the family couldn’t get through to him on the phone ... This was the story. This is the story ... That world did....

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We need to return to world of Sept. 12

Mississippi Business Journal 18 Sep 2024

I had so many ideas for this column. But every time I started to write, the sentences would fall flat. Fortunately, as I sat at the keyboard, inspiration came to me in the most natural way. I was sitting at the same desk I’d been at on Sept. 11, 2001 as the second plane hit the World Trade Center. × This page requires Javascript ... Newsletters ... ....

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Some Goodbyes We Made is a collection of sorrowfully sweet games about saying goodbye

Rock, Paper, Shotgun 17 Sep 2024

As the end of the UK workday approaches, and the last few grains of sand trickle through the neck of the huge, obsidian hourglass our overlord Graham keeps on his desk, let me bid you goodbye by writing up Some Goodbyes We Made. Read more ... ....

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The Plucky Squire Is a Beautiful Adventure For Players Both Young and Old [Review]

The Escapist 17 Sep 2024

By using the power of portals, Jot can escape from the confines of his paper prison and explore portions of the real world, primarily the desk of “Sam”, the boy who writes the Plucky Squire novels ... While exploring Sam’s desk, there would be times that there were ......

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Get Samsung’s fast, rugged 4TB portable SSD for $200 off right now

PC World 17 Sep 2024

Its rugged build will survive falls and tumbles, and its IP65 water and dust resistance means it won’t break if you drop it in a puddle or spill water all over your desk ... read speeds of up to 1,050MB/s and write speeds of up to 1,000MB/s, ensuring fast transfers of massive files....

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The Summer When the New York Post Chased Son of Sam

New York Magazine 17 Sep 2024

The Daily News, especially its star columnist Jimmy Breslin, jumped ahead in the tabloid competition to cover what turned into one of the most lurid tales in tabloid history — especially after the killer, who called himself “Son of Sam,” began writing to Breslin ... DAVID ROSENTHAL, reporter, desk editor, 1974–1977....

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Culture Night 2024: Wondering where to begin? These 20 events around Ireland caught our eye

The Irish Times 17 Sep 2024

The poet’s writing desk is described as “the focal point of an experience that explores Heaney’s creative process through original manuscripts, as well as letters, unpublished works, diary entries, photographs, personal artefacts and multimedia recordings”....

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Christine Flowers: We need to return to the world of Sept. 12, 2001

Daily Freeman 16 Sep 2024

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Connie and Maury’s key to a 40-year marriage? Don’t take it seriously.

The Spokesman-Review 16 Sep 2024

Both of them dreamed of sitting at that desk ... “When I delivered Maury’s wire copy to his desk, I was lucky if I got a thank-you or a nod,” Chung writes in her memoir ... “But instead, it was I who ended up in a noose,” she writes ... Nor was she safe from the very people she was reporting on, including McGovern, who, Chung writes, tried to kiss her....

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Why Approved American History Textbooks contain Missing Links, Part 1

Scheerpost 16 Sep 2024

It might have been simpler if I had done some of this writing while I was still teaching and being constantly exposed to a wide variety of new textbooks, but teaching high school history, while rewarding, is also relentless and unforgiving ... spread over In a responsibly run classroom, all of their students write essays multiple times each semester....