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Why is it so hard to keep up a diary?
IT ISN’T! Not if you limit your diary writing to just SIX minutes. Spend two minutes writing a list of things you remember from the day before, and then another two minutes writing what you remember seeing the day before. For some reason, splitting the four minutes into remembered events and remembered scenes seems to bring images more easily to mind.
Then spend a minute writing down things you heard said and about 90 seconds drawing a picture of something you saw the day before. A simple picture. No pressure on the picture to be anything more than a sketch of something to help you remember.
If you like, you can use this video as a timer for your daily diary entry.
As part of Lynda Barry’s spring semester Arts Institute Residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she’s having her students keep a four minute daily diary in their composition notebooks along with their other assignments.
It’s so easy! Why not try it?
After about a week or so you’ll start to notice the things you notice as you move through your day.
Get your composition notebook and pen ready and then just click on the video.
NINE MINUTE WRITING EXERCISE
SPECIAL TO LYNDA BARRY’S “WHAT IT IS” CLASS
This is the new nine minute writing exercise timing video to use during daily writing exercises for weeks 11 and 12.
Years before she published The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins wrote for several Nickelodeon shows, including Clarissa Explains it All.
Car Trouble
New Blog Post! Last night while at the mall, my headlights didn’t go on…damn. It was midnight. Thank goodness Carl and Eric were there. Carl was nice enough to drive us home. I woke up this morning at 6:30 to get dropped off at the mall to pick it up. It was just light enough outside to drive […] http://dlvr.it/1DFKdv
Guillermo Del Toro speaking about the notebooks he kept that became his film, “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Many artists talk about keeping a notebook as a place to start gathering ideas. Even if they’re not sure about what the project is, they begin to gather things into their notebook that have a certain magnetic quality, that somehow feel related to this future project. Think of a notebook as a place to start letting bits and pieces and scraps of images accumulate until something starts to take on some kind of a shape, almost on its own. Something like a dust ball galaxy begins to roll, something that could not have been predicted
Notebooks are a good staging area for this kind of accumulation of images and ideas.
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How to Write a Novel.
And you know, this is pretty much everything you need to know. The rest is detail, most of which is irrelevant…
(Stolen from http://www.nicalderton.com/blog/HowToWriteANovel/)
Thor vs. the Ice Giants
