How to be a writer’s notebook…
Be at the ready any hour, day or night.
Travel with your person wherever they go.
Take on lists, memories, anecdotes, and quotes.
Embrace the photograph, it was chosen for a reason.
Prepare for the baring of soul and the occasional tear stain.
Be there to support your person as they live the beautiful writerly life.
And expect eraser rubbings and unfinished stories to get stuck in the gutter.
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I love this! I’m going to share it with my students since we just had a lesson in personification. Awesome!
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“Be there to support your person as they live their writerly life” I love it!
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Love this perspective! So succinct and perfect!
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Love it, Dana. This piece captures many ways we use our notebooks. I like the way you talk to us through the “How to Be” poem and love the advice – Be there to support your person with her writerly life!
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I love this too and can see great possibilities in other slices for me (and my students. I look forwrad to sharing it with my third graders at our Slicer Lunch tomorrow!
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The key for me is traveling with me to be at the ready. Somehow it is not always there when I need it. Will try to do better. 🙂
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Oh, HOW I love this!!! I will be stealing this idea and writing my own version. You have INSPIRED me!!!!
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Michelle,
You’re recommendation did not disappoint! Dana this post is so heartwarming! You just might have inspired 2 post, likely more!
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Great perspective writing! I think that is so hard for my students to do. This “How to be…” would be a great idea to try.
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This is so clever! I always have a notebook with me, but more than once I’ve been stuck without a pen!
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