Screenwriting : Let's Call This Hemingway's Corner by Amanda Toney

Well, not Harry's Bar in Venice (Italy) anymore.

Any rooftop patio bar on 6th Street in Austin.

The rooftop Bar of Hilton Doubletree City London. It's as though all the buildings are a cardboard cut out suspended ahead. Or Nero/Starbucks at airports, I know it sounds daft, but airports get my creative flow going. Sometimes plot ideas get stuck in a groove, sat in the same chair, in the same room.

I wrote about a third of a screenplay in The Blue Room in Burbank (which you have seen in a dozen movies). Residuals Bar (which I've also written in many times) used to have the posters of movies written there on the walls (though none of mine). I write in coffee shops all over Los Angeles, but mostly in the valley. I'd suggest Priscilla's in Toluca Lake (where Bob Hope used to live... and I saw him get coffee in Priscilla's before he passed away!), it's small, family owned place.

I have a hard time mixing business with pleasure. If I go to a bar, it's to drink or meet women - although I think I stole the first ten pages of one of William Martell's action flicks at Residuals one night while he went to the bathroom. So I'd second Residuals, but for different reasons. And they even give you a free drink if you bring in a residual check!

On the Spanish island of Lanzarote an artist named César Manrique created massive artistic installations. One of them is named Jameos del Agua. It is built into a volcano and contains bars, cafes and a music venue for up to 600 people. It is beautiful and surreal. It inspires creativity and imagination. An image search does it no justice.

William and Bill, I was at Residuals on Saturday. Cool place! Loving all of these suggestions keep them coming!

I used to like The Cow's End when I lived in Marina del Rey (in LA) from 1995-1996. It's changed since then, but its upstairs was a place I storyboarded my entire first screenplay in order to show I could direct.

The fact is: people need people... so getting out of that "lonely room" is often necessary so the walls don't close in.

Fox Coffeehouse in Long Beach or a library. The latter doesn't check for bottles.

I know many great cafes and bars, but I can't really work in them unless it's slow and quiet. I like places with sensational coffee and a great selection of cakes.

Great question!! The answers should get listed in an own section on stage32 so that everyone can use it. In addition, it will be a good list for meetups. So, we would know where to go to incase we want to meet and get to know fellow members :))

Tips for Berlin: 1.) There is a book shop named 'Hugendubel' where you can sit on couches and read books or sit on tables or a counter and take a coffee. Such places are great. Hugendubel has several book shops in many districts of Berlin. 2.) I also loved to sit in the Philharmonie while an orchestra rehearses and write or learn. Great energy and very inspiring, but you have to bring your coffee. Used to do so when a friend of mine played the flute for the Symphonic orchestra, is usually not for the public - although I am not sure if it sometimes is open to view. 3.) Then, the hotel hall of Hotel Adlon. You can take a coffee and watch very interesting people. 4.) I never tried it, but it must be inspiring to write in a museum - without a coffee then, of course. Just got this idea, because there are nice places along the river Spree on Museum Island Berlin and around, behind the Office of the Federal Chancellor etc. 5.) If you look around in the districts of Berlin you actually will find places to write while having a coffee or something to eat everywhere, the same is true of Potsdam.

@Kristopher - yep, that's a very creative and inspiring place.

@ Elisabeth - The pool was used in a German kid's TV show called The Legend of Timm Thaler as the devil's house along with another César Manrique installation - Mirador del Rio. I found the whole island of Lanzarote an ideal place to conjure up creations.

In Rome, it's Bar del Fico in the Piazza del Fico square. Right behind Piazza Navona but away from the tourists, it's a bar frequented by locals and international alike. Under the fig tree you can find every afternoon a group of elderly people playing chess, and the location is quiet under the leafy tree. In the night it transforms and becomes a movida place, bustling with life. A true must!

Elizabeth's idea of compiling a special Stage 32 coffee zone area map is a fantastic thought, so people can get to meet face to face, especially if travelling to a different place. Or even have Meetups, if numbers of people show interest. "Residuals" seems to be where it's at in LA, reading the thread, sounds like a film in itself. (@Bill script heist. Lol.)

Steven and Debbie: thank you, nice that you like my idea - and Steven, I think Starbucks will survive it. :))

I'm not sure if Starbucks is the kind of place I'd go for inspiration, though.

@ElisabethMeier The Louvre Museum here in Paris has benches in some of the larger galleries. You often see people with notebooks perched on them (most are sketching but you see a few taking notes). My favourite café here in Paris is Café Verlet on Rue Saint Honoré (a few minutes' walk from the Louvre, in fact). They have a splendid tea room upstairs where you can sit and write over a really good cup of coffee.

@Kristopher Surely not, guess most writers go there because of the free internet access.

Starbucks would be the ideal location for a megalomaniac to stick malicious QR codes that, when scanned, shows a little quirky animation, but in reality are making a premium rate phone call to an account attached to a Cayman Island bank account and skimming & stealing all the files on the hard drive to sell and compensate for their own short comings and failed ambitions.

LOL. What? Some of Woody Allen's films then must have been written there.

Apologies. I was letting my imagination run wild. I figured Hemingway's Corner needed a power crazed antagonist with a diabolical, script stealing plan.

I must admit that I am baffled by anyone that can write in public space on a regular basis and get anything done. Rock on for those that can. I find when I am out in public, I observe or engage. I do take notes, but when I am there it is for the living. I have a place to write in my home office. That space in my house is a safe place to write, play, create, and it is set up for that. I prefer to bring my experiences back to that place and see how they grow. That said.... One of the places I go to observe, and a number of people study and write, are the Boston Stoker coffee shops in the Dayton, Ohio area. They roast their own coffee and it is always good.

Steven. I now realise you mean they won't be happy, because we're taking our business elsewhere.

Any Irish bar . . . all you have to do is turn down the music, stop serving alcohol, eject all the patrons and probably pre book an ambulance for yourself :)

What's good, Shannon! I'm thinkin': Any place not as crowded as the bar we went to for the meet up in DC! I couldn't breath in that joint!

I like grabbing a drink, sitting down with my notepad and breaking ideas out. Even ideas that don't attach to things. Can't write the actual material in the bar though. We're recreating life, right? In Portland, Oregon the best place to do this is at Spot 79 on Foster. Dive bar, across the street from a strip club. A lot of life walks through that door, ripe for the taking.

This is all such great information - thank you so much for everyone giving input! I'll definitely make sure to check out some of these recommendations as I continue my travels! For me, when in LA the coffeeshop on the LMU campus is an amazing place to write (weird but it's worth it). When in DC, I enjoyed working at The Coup in Columbia Heights. Very eccentric cafe that serves coffee AND alcohol - I was there all day! When in Ireland, I quite enjoy any of the pubs in Galway during the day (As long as you can work while tipsy), and in Dublin, well, there's no chance of getting any work done if you're out in public. @eoin I did quite enjoy this 2 story place up the road from Temple Bar Pub, down the alley across from a vintage store I believe? Maybe you can help me out? In New Zealand, the cafes in Britomart area of Auckland were a favorite of mine. Or Chapel Bar in Ponsonby. In Australia.....we'll I never really got any work done in Australia ;) Can give fantastic recommendations on where to go out drinking though!

Cherie, how about Mario's at Brunswick street, Fitzroy, or any coffee shop along that street, but I like mario's for breakfast as well as writing.

@Shannon The Button Factory perhaps?

Scotch on the rocks on my desk with my 27" iMac. The only place for me to write!

Yeah, David, but remember that I will pick you up! Then you dictate it to me while I take a coffee and you have your Scotch... so you could write your script in a coffee shop as well - only if you like and if your wife agrees, of course. :)