![]() ![]() Twyla Tharp in The Creative Habit recommends using a designated box for storing all scraps related to a project. Then, having found a notebook (not the one she’d used yesterday), and staring in stunned amazement at the illegible chicken scratchings therein, she would finally settle down to jab at elusive characters and oil creaky plots. Her less-than-refined writerly day began with finding her notebook, which surely she’d left right there. I loved reading that Agatha Christie was totally disorganized with her note-taking. I’m learning that the aesthetic aspect of writing, whether with pen and paper or computer program, matters to me. Using a ballpoint pen and scratchy, thin (American) binder paper irritates me, though they’re perfectly serviceable. What I thought was frivolous (fountain pen, fun colors, smooth writing paper, &c) has turned out to be important: I’ve made this part of my routine because I like the tactile quality of the pen and ink and paper, and the colors feel lively to me. I now always carry my Lamy pen (fuchsia, of course, with aqua ink (for now)) and this notebook. I’ve also started carrying a small notebook (a small moleskine-like notebook), and I’ve been surprised at how religiously I’ve made this a part of my routine. ![]() I have, surprisingly, started to map the paths of my research snippets, to see how I can better corral them. I think about this all the time, and even think I need to do some analytical thinking to map how I take notes and where tend to put them. ![]()
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