Stephan Miller

Posts Tagged ‘writing notebooks’

And I don’t mean keeping a laptop. I meaning having a place to write things down to get them out of your mind.

I have written in a notebook for almost twenty years now. I started early. It has been a practice that always brings a lot more with it than you expect.

By writing things down, you make them concrete. I am a dreamer. Always dreaming up new ways of doing things. These things float into my mind at random points of the day. Sometimes they stay and sometimes they move on. Some ideas are good and some are bad. But if I can, I write them down. This fixes them in place. It makes them real instead of a dream. Writing is an action and by taking that first action, the work is set in motion.  Read more... (297 words, 1 image, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)