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writing board

n. work surface consisting of a wide light-weight board that can be placed across the lap and used for writing

Usage examples of "writing board".

As Tiamak washed his hands in the water bowl he had put out before leaving, crouching because there was no room to sit between his obsessively scraped and polished writing board and his water jug, he heard a scratching sound on the roof.

She set about her inspection briskly and efficiently, checking that the damane had kept themselves and their individual kennels neat, making a short notation in her neat hand on the top page pinned to the writing board when one had failed to, and she did not dawdle, except to give out hard candies to a few who were doing particularly well in the training.

Barholm stepped up to the bed on its raised dais, a writing board in his hand.

Tinwright took up his writing board, one of the few things left he had not been forced to pawn, and sharpened the quill with an old knife stolen from Conary’.

Was it the bitter odor seeping around the writing board he had laid over the battered surface?

Dulice pressed a new page to her writing board, inking her pen to draw the Maid standing in front of the vast array of armed men.

The envelope was at the bottom of the case except for a writing board with slightly used white blotting paper held by crocodile and gold corners.