The OU Blog is without doubt my 'free writing space’ and has thrown up plenty of surprises along the way. Anything that looks sufficiently polished then gets transferred onto my Blogspot blog which has accumulated an impressive 14 followers! All members of this course, no normal people ;) One or two have actually left comments on this (public) blog, so I find myself trying harder to make the writing look, at least, decent.
I guess it's all good training for later. But I will pursue with the notebook as well - even if it's the little daily diary app on my iPhone which doesn't require a pen (they keep snapping in my pocket) and at least has the advantage of making note taking look like you're sending text messages to your friends and family. Where in fact, you're actually jotting down the fact that the lady who's just served you lunch has forearms like mottled hams, or the chap in front of you in the queue seemed to be dressed in his 1960's Army demob suit.
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ReplyDeleteI don't carry a notebook about with me as I have grown so unused to using a pen and paper, I can barely understand what I try to write! What I DO use though, is an app on my phone called 'notetoself' which is on android, but am positive something similar exists on iphone. I save whatever I think of throughout the day, then transfer it all verbatim to my laptop which I then save as an electronic journal.
Another idea that I have is to make another gmail account specifically for sending myself emails of work. gmail has google documents also which is awesome.. 7gig or so of space for free, can't argue with that!
I love the idea of wandering about IKEA doing pen portraits of everyone you meet!
Yes Janys, it's really important to save everything I think, no matter how 'rubbish' it might seem at the time.. I wrote something the other day that I thought was pure dung.. yet looked at it just now and can see something rather promising..
ReplyDeleteI think it's best to include every little thought in your notebook and back it up on the computer. Then you can look through it all for ideas and inspiration whenever you need it.
My biggest problem is organising the mass of nonsense into something readable.. Will have to tackle that at some point before it gets too much :-)
Cheers for the feedback guys. There's so much talk of notebooks Neil, I'm giving it my best shot. But it may be a busted flush, I don't know. I shall pursue, but I'm writing plenty on electronic media, so I guess you Janys and me are all doing something right, not like Dickens or the Brontes but like 21st Century boys and girls!!
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