Editing notebooks
My scribbled wisdom lives here
Ideas, hope, ink.
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New poems, haiku forms, and all sorts of story ideas emerge as I look through my notebooks. Every Samhain I cull them. This year there are almost 40 to examine.
It is a pleasure to shred pages as I go along. Only the best of my writing and ideas will be kept.
Since November, turning my attention to these pages has also given me regular breaks from the main work of editing my nonfiction book. An avid researcher, I have taken my time with the book. ‘Research’ does not mean Google searches! I’ve read lots of studies, conducted by other curious minds around the world who devote their working lives to helping people. Finding the best research is satisfying, and I trained for this (I studied sociology at postgraduate level).
At the same time, the nonfiction book would be exhausting to produce without some variety in my day. So hooray for the notebooks. They feel like fun to my brain.
I’ll share news about my book in the next newsletter, which readers get by email. You can read more about current projects in progress at the end of the ‘About’ page.
Kathryn Mary Crowley 