On Oxford, pets at Mass and book writing. I’d planned to take some photos for you of almost-spring in the city, but I caved and headed straight for the sofa, and endless mugs of tea.
Jen, thank you so much for sending your readers to my website and to my just about to be launched Substack!
Note cards are all over the place in my house. They never get properly recorded or filed. I have notebooks, journals, and snippets of stuff that would probably take me the rest of my life to gather up, organize, and make sense of if I wanted to use those once thought of great ideas and insights in a book. In other words, I’m hopeless when it comes to being helpful in helping know how to organize your note cards.
I am using Scrivener to write my memoir. It is a powerful writing tool. The problem for me is: I have to learn it as I go along. That is not the best plan for a writer, but so far I like how I can keep all my attempts at writing in one place.
Best to you as you keep on keeping on with your work in progress. Hugs.
Feb 14, 2023·edited Feb 14, 2023Liked by Jenni Baden Howard
Note cards have been super helpful for me when I was drafting my book proposal. You can move them around, stack them, lay them out, hold them close. Another friend took an entire wall and covered them in post-its. One row for each chapter. XO
Congrats on your memoir progress! Google docs, note cards, emails I sent to myself with quotes and thoughts as they bubble up from my heart. The note cards were especially helpful in sorting my draft into chapters, and to see the patterns and themes that were already there.
Jen, thank you so much for sending your readers to my website and to my just about to be launched Substack!
Note cards are all over the place in my house. They never get properly recorded or filed. I have notebooks, journals, and snippets of stuff that would probably take me the rest of my life to gather up, organize, and make sense of if I wanted to use those once thought of great ideas and insights in a book. In other words, I’m hopeless when it comes to being helpful in helping know how to organize your note cards.
I am using Scrivener to write my memoir. It is a powerful writing tool. The problem for me is: I have to learn it as I go along. That is not the best plan for a writer, but so far I like how I can keep all my attempts at writing in one place.
Best to you as you keep on keeping on with your work in progress. Hugs.
Note cards have been super helpful for me when I was drafting my book proposal. You can move them around, stack them, lay them out, hold them close. Another friend took an entire wall and covered them in post-its. One row for each chapter. XO
Congrats on your memoir progress! Google docs, note cards, emails I sent to myself with quotes and thoughts as they bubble up from my heart. The note cards were especially helpful in sorting my draft into chapters, and to see the patterns and themes that were already there.