Last year, I filled five notebooks with poems and this year was the same – five notebooks filled with words. (That first one was obviously a gift, y’all know writers are always getting journals and notebooks as gifts!) So much
journals
It’s been one helluva year for writing for me. I won the Jack McCarthy book prize and wrote poems that are included in my forthcoming collection, Her Whole Bright Life. I spent two weeks in Crete, writing and soaking up
I know, we’re in the second month of 2022 and I’m only now talking about the journals I filled in 2021? Yes, I am woefully behind the curve and I have no excuse other than *waves hands wildly about* life.
I’ve talked about it before, the connection a writer has with their journals. How they like a specific type or brand, they want a particular size or shape or weight. I used to prefer a journal from World Market but
Writers can be finicky about what we write in – some prefer a specific brand of journal (like Moleskin), some people are particular regarding the size or shape of the journal, some want lined or unlined or numbered pages. Some
