I come to you by way of austin kleon, who loves your work. I just started my own substack (I've heard we're supposed to just call them newsletters). I've been waiting fifty years to become a writer, so now i am. I will follow you and share--you are incredibly inspiring. What brand of notebooks do you use?? Just curious. Thank you for your work!!
I loved the chance to see a little of your process! So interesting to look at the beginnings, when I got the chance to see the show and had those memories in mind.
I think this is the first time I’ve seen “You Think You’re Better than Me” in its entirety. It hits hard (unfortunately, I can relate). The patchwork-quilt arrangement works so well - there’s a chronological story that comes through but its also clear that all the pieces are interrelated. “I took stock. I took lunch.” (From your notes) Is also a really cool line.
Sorry you guys are having a tough time of it right now! Here’s to the future!
I’m always inspired in the fall to start up my art/journaling again. Thanks for giving me that extra push. Just had cataract surgery on my right eye and WOWZA people were right when they said colours will POP! Excited to get the left eye done.
I like this edition, there's lots to take in and think about. It is substantive. Your notes reveal that "Drunken Parties" took place in both the kitchen and living room. Good info. Sometimes when I get ideas for song lyrics if I don't write them down immediately they fly away. Merle Haggard speaks of this and I've heard other songwriters say the same. I write notes in my phone or record myself singing or speaking. Or scrawl them on the back of a random piece of paper in my van.
I await the arrival of your journaling workshop…as journaling is something I am absolute crap at…I record stuff, doodle stuff, burn it all in a bonfire every winter. I find it cleansing…but also I loose a load of possibly good ideas…or maybe they are shit ideas and better burned! Who’s to know 🤣. But more importantly, I am sorry you guys have had such a tough year. And heartened that you are still up for setting the world on fire. Big hugs to you BA.
I live below Parc Lafontaine, and I often daydream to own one of these houses! I too feel like I would be so creative living there! But I often go to the park and read, and this place is magical and so inspiring!
I have started writing my book again, after taking a year off from it, and am I ever glad I was keeping a process notebook when I last worked on it! There is so much important information in there that I hadn't captured in my manuscript when it went on hiatus.... including a big structural conception I had worked out (and forgotten entirely about). These days I keep notebooks everywhere so that I can get stuff out of my head when I need to (because I forget stuff pretty much immediately). In any case, I enjoy your thoughts here as well as your notebook pictures. Katherine May also wrote recently about her notebooks.... I love to know that I'm not alone in the weirdness of mine. Somehow I still think that other people are writing eloquent prose in their notebooks while I am writing garbage. It's the equivalent of the creative people behind the windows I guess.
I come to you by way of austin kleon, who loves your work. I just started my own substack (I've heard we're supposed to just call them newsletters). I've been waiting fifty years to become a writer, so now i am. I will follow you and share--you are incredibly inspiring. What brand of notebooks do you use?? Just curious. Thank you for your work!!
Hello again! Wanted to share a link about notebooks I just followed from another newsletter. Thought you might find it interesting.
https://substack.com/redirect/1da13b31-936b-4a47-bb13-694d0221be8c?j=eyJ1IjoiMTcyNjZmIn0.fGpcoXyHuADnQ9Wm8FNzMc_X9bzE5aQbIptJCTTvJ3A
I loved the chance to see a little of your process! So interesting to look at the beginnings, when I got the chance to see the show and had those memories in mind.
I think this is the first time I’ve seen “You Think You’re Better than Me” in its entirety. It hits hard (unfortunately, I can relate). The patchwork-quilt arrangement works so well - there’s a chronological story that comes through but its also clear that all the pieces are interrelated. “I took stock. I took lunch.” (From your notes) Is also a really cool line.
gotta love Victoria B.C. being the city of dreams it would seem it is wow
Sorry you guys are having a tough time of it right now! Here’s to the future!
I’m always inspired in the fall to start up my art/journaling again. Thanks for giving me that extra push. Just had cataract surgery on my right eye and WOWZA people were right when they said colours will POP! Excited to get the left eye done.
I like this edition, there's lots to take in and think about. It is substantive. Your notes reveal that "Drunken Parties" took place in both the kitchen and living room. Good info. Sometimes when I get ideas for song lyrics if I don't write them down immediately they fly away. Merle Haggard speaks of this and I've heard other songwriters say the same. I write notes in my phone or record myself singing or speaking. Or scrawl them on the back of a random piece of paper in my van.
Thanks for letting us take a peak inside your notebooks! I always love to see how other writers go about using them.
Secret fan over here. I saw your show and was moved to tears. Thank you
I await the arrival of your journaling workshop…as journaling is something I am absolute crap at…I record stuff, doodle stuff, burn it all in a bonfire every winter. I find it cleansing…but also I loose a load of possibly good ideas…or maybe they are shit ideas and better burned! Who’s to know 🤣. But more importantly, I am sorry you guys have had such a tough year. And heartened that you are still up for setting the world on fire. Big hugs to you BA.
I live below Parc Lafontaine, and I often daydream to own one of these houses! I too feel like I would be so creative living there! But I often go to the park and read, and this place is magical and so inspiring!
I have started writing my book again, after taking a year off from it, and am I ever glad I was keeping a process notebook when I last worked on it! There is so much important information in there that I hadn't captured in my manuscript when it went on hiatus.... including a big structural conception I had worked out (and forgotten entirely about). These days I keep notebooks everywhere so that I can get stuff out of my head when I need to (because I forget stuff pretty much immediately). In any case, I enjoy your thoughts here as well as your notebook pictures. Katherine May also wrote recently about her notebooks.... I love to know that I'm not alone in the weirdness of mine. Somehow I still think that other people are writing eloquent prose in their notebooks while I am writing garbage. It's the equivalent of the creative people behind the windows I guess.