Lately, all I'm writing are to-do lists for school and work, but as I look next to my computer, there is a pile of yellow sticky notes, and even a couple of napkins, with writing all over them. It seems that my creative writing has, for the time being, taken on the size and shape of my to-do lists. Perhaps I need to feel some sort of control and tightness to my ideas. Perhaps as school goes on and I fall into a routine, my ideas can expand onto larger writing tablets, or even into a file on my computer. For now, I just need something tangible to show myself that I'm still open to the world around me, like this photo of my schoomate's daughter. Ideas are everywhere. Doesn't she want to make you write a story? Perhaps I'll just jot a few words down on a post-it...
5 comments:
Cute photo! And you need to start hauling a notebook around with you for all those creative bursts:)
You are so right! I, too, have some lovely notebooks that have never been touched.
Great photo, Diane! It's the perfect reminder that we as writers for children should use children as our inspiration.
Who knows what one of those post-it notes will become....!
I love that pretend mode so much a part of that age. What is she imagining? I'm a post-it, paper scrap person too--pure chaos of pieces around me. I've tried to remember to stick tiny pads of paper into my purse or gym bag so I can have a post-its-on-the-go experience. Just capture the thoughts--doesn't matter how or where.
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