goldenwordsmith

Ready To Work

Coffee and Moleskine, originally uploaded by Lost in Scotland.

I love these Moleskines (pronounced Mol uh skeens)! I’m passionate about them. You can’t own too many of them, actually. I use one just for upcoming deadlines, another for a query log, and still another just for writing down ideas. They are indispensable, beautiful, and lightweight. Add a gorgeous cup of coffee and you couldn’t ask for anything else.

How Do You Keep Your Ideas?

Moleskine page 13, originally uploaded by Jo36.

This journal isn’t mine, but it could be. I use sketchbooks that are huge to just capture ideas. (I also always have a small one with me.) They end up having drawings, lists, mind-maps, pockets pasted in and other paper inside, and pages and pages of writing. I save them all. I’ve needed two lines for a poems before, and have gone back into my journal and found the perfect lines written two years past. I think there is a kind of magic in a journal, don’t you?

Ready To Work

Coffee and Moleskine, originally uploaded by Lost in Scotland.

I love these Moleskines (pronounced Mol uh skeens)! I’m passionate about them. You can’t own too many of them, actually. I use one just for upcoming deadlines, another for a query log, and still another just for writing down ideas. They are indispensable, beautiful, and lightweight. Add a gorgeous cup of coffee and you couldn’t ask for anything else.

How Do You Keep Your Ideas?

Moleskine page 13, originally uploaded by Jo36.

This journal isn’t mine, but it could be. I use sketchbooks that are huge to just capture ideas. (I also always have a small one with me.) They end up having drawings, lists, mind-maps, pockets pasted in and other paper inside, and pages and pages of writing. I save them all. I’ve needed two lines for a poems before, and have gone back into my journal and found the perfect lines written two years past. I think there is a kind of magic in a journal, don’t you?

Art Helps Writing

altered book spread, originally uploaded by Bellah.

In my freelance writing classes we use artistic techniques such as collage and mind-mapping to organize ideas. It works so well it feels as if, after this is done, the articles practically write themselves. It’s fun, but the real reason is to engage the right brain so that article-writing is not just a left-brain process. No writer’s block. No frustration.