Audience is such a tricky topic! And a wonderful gift--that other people can read the lines that start out in my notebook! It's a wonder! Thanks for sharing about your notebooks, Jody!
I love to hear more about other people's process, but it's intimidating to share. Jennifer Louden shared this about building creative confidence: "worry, start anyway, help someone, do some more, and most of all? Keep going." So I took the leap! Peace keep you, Ann šhttps://jenniferlouden.substack.com/p/what-creative-confidence-really-looks
Great article-- thanks! For me, creative "defiance" is the stubbornness to ignore the 100 other mundane chores I could be doing. I'm working on flexing that muscle more and more now that my children are grown.
This is great Kortney and thanks for sharing. I've wondered about writing out my drafts with pen and paper. I'm still all digital but might try analogue.
I tried to change my process a bit this fall--moving from a bound journal to loose leaf pages. But it didn't stick! Go with what works! Thanks for reading, Neil.
I do most of my drafting with pen and paper in a notebook. I should do a post sometime sharing my drafts - I'm afraid they make me look sort of crazy š¤£ i only type up the poem one it's pretty much done
I have no cat but french press and morning writing as well. It's good to know we're not alone. Nice use of notebooks. I heard that was a method of Sharon Olds as well. I think it was Sharon Olds?
I'm about 50-50. Half my drafts start with pen or pencil on paper. Either in a notebook or scratched on whatever paper I can find to hand: an envelope I'm using as a bookmark, the margin of a child's school paper. But half of them start on my computer, typed as the words come and revision beginning immediately. I don't therefore have records often of the first idea. I'm trying to be better at copying and pasting and revising a copy so I can have a better record of the process and have earlier drafts to refer to. And then there are the poems that take form in the comment boxes of Facebook posts. I write a lot of ekphrastic poetry that way, just jotting a few lines or even a mostly-completed poem in the comments below a picture that's caught my eye. I've written them on friend's posts and on my own. I usually don't do anything to draw attention to them, but some of my friends have noticed and think of them as Easter eggs-- I like that. Anything I compose on Facebook gets copied and pasted into my word processing program and usually edited there. And some days when I don't know what to write or I'm in an editing mood, I just flip through those files and spend time tweaking old drafts of poems, polishing a bit here and there and then drifting on to another one.
Audience is such a tricky topic! And a wonderful gift--that other people can read the lines that start out in my notebook! It's a wonder! Thanks for sharing about your notebooks, Jody!
Iām always fascinated by how writers think and work. Thank you for a generous peek behind the creative curtain, Kortney!
I love to hear more about other people's process, but it's intimidating to share. Jennifer Louden shared this about building creative confidence: "worry, start anyway, help someone, do some more, and most of all? Keep going." So I took the leap! Peace keep you, Ann šhttps://jenniferlouden.substack.com/p/what-creative-confidence-really-looks
Great article-- thanks! For me, creative "defiance" is the stubbornness to ignore the 100 other mundane chores I could be doing. I'm working on flexing that muscle more and more now that my children are grown.
For this homebody, this is one of the gifts of retreat. There simply aren't any chores for me to do.
Exactly. Also when traveling-- I love long flights and car rides for this reason.
This is great Kortney and thanks for sharing. I've wondered about writing out my drafts with pen and paper. I'm still all digital but might try analogue.
I tried to change my process a bit this fall--moving from a bound journal to loose leaf pages. But it didn't stick! Go with what works! Thanks for reading, Neil.
I do most of my drafting with pen and paper in a notebook. I should do a post sometime sharing my drafts - I'm afraid they make me look sort of crazy š¤£ i only type up the poem one it's pretty much done
I mean, I think we're all a little crazy! I'd love to hear more about your process or see drafts.
I have no cat but french press and morning writing as well. It's good to know we're not alone. Nice use of notebooks. I heard that was a method of Sharon Olds as well. I think it was Sharon Olds?
Heck, I'll take Sharon Olds! Happy writing, James.
I'm about 50-50. Half my drafts start with pen or pencil on paper. Either in a notebook or scratched on whatever paper I can find to hand: an envelope I'm using as a bookmark, the margin of a child's school paper. But half of them start on my computer, typed as the words come and revision beginning immediately. I don't therefore have records often of the first idea. I'm trying to be better at copying and pasting and revising a copy so I can have a better record of the process and have earlier drafts to refer to. And then there are the poems that take form in the comment boxes of Facebook posts. I write a lot of ekphrastic poetry that way, just jotting a few lines or even a mostly-completed poem in the comments below a picture that's caught my eye. I've written them on friend's posts and on my own. I usually don't do anything to draw attention to them, but some of my friends have noticed and think of them as Easter eggs-- I like that. Anything I compose on Facebook gets copied and pasted into my word processing program and usually edited there. And some days when I don't know what to write or I'm in an editing mood, I just flip through those files and spend time tweaking old drafts of poems, polishing a bit here and there and then drifting on to another one.
I love that poems show up in the comment box, that friends find them, that you are saving them. Such a life-giving approach to creative work.
I have wondered about this - how you take drafts and create books!
I love that it starts with paper - unlined paper š©·
I have been writing more and more in notebooks and flagging little bits that I feel may be the start of something?
Sometimes they are. Well, sometimes they are in the right moment. I keep them flagged - you never know. š©·