Having a Writer’s Notebook that you find yourself brainstorming material for and continually seeking to return to during your everyday routine can a source of creativity and joy in one’s life. I know it certainly was for me.
I divided my use of the Writer’s Notebook into a few main categories.
So many of my pages were filled with poem rewrite, and this made me realize just how critical this component of my process was.
2) Modeling/Breaking down the poetry process
As I tried to transition from the prose I had been writing, mostly in journal-entry style, to starting to write poems again for the first time in a while, I examined the way in which I was trying to go about writing poetry, and in doing so realized a lot about the form and the ways in which I approach it.