The Writer’s Notebook: Your Treasure Chest of Ideas Created
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
We forget the loves and betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed,
we forget who we really are.
Joan Didion (a writer)
While your Writer’s Notebook may look like no more than blank pages right now, by the end of
this class you will view it quite differently. It will be filled with ideas you have had, things you
have felt, arguments won and lost. Memories. Answers. Questions. Lessons tried. Lessons
learned. Facts. Fictions. Poems. Stories. Real world writings. Lists. Colors. Articles. Drawings.
Notes. It will be a treasure chest of ideas that you can turn to when you need inspiration or just
something to get the teacher off your back.
The Writer’s Notebook is a safe place for you to try things we do in class and to keep up with
ideas you have in class. You would be amazed at how many people keep a writer’s notebook.
Certainly famous writers keep them; they don’t bother with diaries, they want a place where they
can put ideas while they are fresh in their minds. Song writers keep ‘em as well. If you look at
the lyrics of Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails to Pink Floyd, you often see them written down as if
they were written in a notebook. But not only those people. Some business leaders and doctors
and lawyers keep writer’s notebooks as a place to put down what is on their minds. The point is
this. You can try things in your writer’s notebook that won’t be graded on anything but effort.
You don’t have to worry about failing; the only way you can fail in the writer’s notebook is not
to write in it at all. Take risks; write what is on your mind. Take risks; try the writer’s notebook
exercises we do as mini lessons. From these things come your most important words and writing
pieces. The writer’s notebook writing is known as expressive writing because it is the place
where you express yourself in a school setting. Be wise; don’t put things in the notebook that
are inappropriate for school.
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