I love seeing people’s creative process! I’m more of a visual artist than a writer (I’d love to learn to write a book sometime but it’s never come naturally to me). I can only do so much on the computer! Tactile methods and being able to see all the information doesn’t hinder my creative process like digital methods do. Also I love your cats! I’ve always been partial to grey and orange cats 🐈 🐈⬛ Here I’ve just started publishing a comic strip about two kitties on a space adventure… I have a script writer and I do the art, but we both contribute ideas to the storyline, and I will have ideas for jokes that I ask them to incorporate into the script and plot. It’s a really fun partnership!
I never thought I'd be so passionate about cork boards, and then I started writing a book. I once saw a huge one abandoned on the side of the highway and insisted my husband cross 4 lanes of traffic to retrieve it. I still think about that cork board. (We did not retrieve it).
The novel has two narrators, and the plot unfolds during a major historic event so I needed to keep track of that. I used the fourth color to mark major moments of tension, trying to make sure i had enough of them. Once I had a draft, I had a document with the first and last lines of every chapter, which I found quite useful. And I consider my cat Zoe a co-author -- she's interested and supportive but silent.
Obsessed with this approach for writing nonfiction. ❤️🔥 I always thought the sticky notes/index cards on a large corkboard was the domain of novelists, but now I'm inspired to do it for my memoir!
Thanks for this piece. Your cats are very photogenic (as cats tend to be). I used the yellow, pink, green, and blue post-its when I was working out my plot. Spread them out on a glass topped coffee table -- and somewhere I have the photo.
I love seeing people’s creative process! I’m more of a visual artist than a writer (I’d love to learn to write a book sometime but it’s never come naturally to me). I can only do so much on the computer! Tactile methods and being able to see all the information doesn’t hinder my creative process like digital methods do. Also I love your cats! I’ve always been partial to grey and orange cats 🐈 🐈⬛ Here I’ve just started publishing a comic strip about two kitties on a space adventure… I have a script writer and I do the art, but we both contribute ideas to the storyline, and I will have ideas for jokes that I ask them to incorporate into the script and plot. It’s a really fun partnership!
Love this! And grey and orange cats forever -- and tactile writing methods :)
This looks so much fun 😍
I never thought I'd be so passionate about cork boards, and then I started writing a book. I once saw a huge one abandoned on the side of the highway and insisted my husband cross 4 lanes of traffic to retrieve it. I still think about that cork board. (We did not retrieve it).
Haha amazing! I hope am equally large one is in your future :))
Love your piece. Inspiring and thought provoking
Excited to get some index cards and see what happens !!
The novel has two narrators, and the plot unfolds during a major historic event so I needed to keep track of that. I used the fourth color to mark major moments of tension, trying to make sure i had enough of them. Once I had a draft, I had a document with the first and last lines of every chapter, which I found quite useful. And I consider my cat Zoe a co-author -- she's interested and supportive but silent.
Obsessed with this approach for writing nonfiction. ❤️🔥 I always thought the sticky notes/index cards on a large corkboard was the domain of novelists, but now I'm inspired to do it for my memoir!
I didn't even know many novelists did that! I am so glad it inspired you to do the same -- I have a friend who's doing it for her memoir as well!
Thanks for this piece. Your cats are very photogenic (as cats tend to be). I used the yellow, pink, green, and blue post-its when I was working out my plot. Spread them out on a glass topped coffee table -- and somewhere I have the photo.
Did you color-code somehow? And my cats and I say thank you, we think so too :)