tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204727386532339291.post3240623477590629514..comments2023-12-10T13:16:58.731+09:00Comments on Axis of Abraxas: A Poetry Blog: More Notebook NotesJessica Goodfellowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07561656986278259434noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204727386532339291.post-6821837156340960612011-12-05T07:54:45.489+09:002011-12-05T07:54:45.489+09:00I still need a notebook to jot the odd bit down. I...I still need a notebook to jot the odd bit down. I've also noticed how, over time, my notes toward my second book reflect a kind of distillation process, a refinement of my initial idea(s). Lists are good! They're a way to concretize, organize, and focus. My process seems to be letting things (poems, ideas for poems) "cook" internally, sometimes for long periods of time, so when I finally begin to write, much of the alchemy of the poem's coming into being has already happened. Which doesn't mean I don't obsess over my revisions like anyone else!Marihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211528951336098923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204727386532339291.post-7685876420480705712011-10-20T10:07:15.273+09:002011-10-20T10:07:15.273+09:00Interesting, Mari, that you can go straight to mak...Interesting, Mari, that you can go straight to making a poem. I have gone the other direction--used to go straight to making poems (only when "inspired") to now trying to write more regularly and thus, needing notebooks to get started. I don't journal though, unless you count scribbling down interesting words or ideas as journalling. Nothing about my personal life shows up in my notebooks (except that which words and ideas I'm thinking about is intensely personal), but no diary stuff. But lists. How I love lists. Lots of them. <br /><br />I wonder what moving away from notebooks means? Your mind is getting more organized, more focused???Jessica Goodfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07561656986278259434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204727386532339291.post-85251240697961610042011-10-20T05:58:25.427+09:002011-10-20T05:58:25.427+09:00I used to journal quite a bit, but have only been ...I used to journal quite a bit, but have only been an intermittent notebook user. I mostly (and rarely) use them to jot down ideas I'm considering for future poems/projects. These days I seem to go straight to making a poem (in long-hand and then on the computer) without relying on my notebooks. And I rarely journal anymore, only record notes from my travels and occasionally jot down a thought or significant event. I wonder what this shift means?Marihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211528951336098923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204727386532339291.post-68572581688180627782011-10-16T06:12:50.001+09:002011-10-16T06:12:50.001+09:00Once I get a poem in what I think will be its form...Once I get a poem in what I think will be its form, I put it on computer to see what it will look like, and then I print it out and write all over it until it's barely legible. Then I go and make the surviving changes on the computer, print it out, and do it again. I still prefer working on the actual paper as much as possible. I don't keep all those drafts though; I've been told I'll be sorry, but I haven't been yet.Jessica Goodfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07561656986278259434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204727386532339291.post-75338801282608303702011-10-16T01:49:51.308+09:002011-10-16T01:49:51.308+09:00I'm still a notebook person! Although I do my...I'm still a notebook person! Although I do my heavy duty revising on the computer.Karen J. Weyanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04870809238605691875noreply@blogger.com