On writing notes
“Your notebook will become a secret testing ground, for trying out ideas, phrases, mini-stories and scenes, bits of dialogue – all in complete freedom, with the knowledge that if things don’t work, no one sees these trial runs but you. Over time, your notebook will prove invaluable. It’s especially useful for noting down characters that you might want to develop later.
Make notes in a way that suits you, so that you can do it wherever you are – on trains, buses, in cafés, at home or work. Make your notebook a place you like going. You might use:
- a traditional school exercise book
- a hardback notebook with plain paper
- lined paper collected and ordered in a file
- your tablet, smart phone or laptop.”
Reference: The Open University via FutureLearn
My thoughts on learning a skill via a computer vs hand written notes
It depends. Written notes with pencil or pen and paper allows for the doodle, for a creation that involves more… I’m not sure if typing does the same. Its very linear – one way, black and white with limited squiggles in between, with editing and formatting interruptions to your flow. The one thing I do that has refined the squiggles: I review what I’ve written. Not yet a scheduled review, but often enough. This allows me the ability to analyse my own captured stories, and in doing so I’ve been able to pickup on habits, repeat beliefs, shortcuts, inefficiencies…
Keeping track of details, details, details…
The ability to describe a person in detail…
Submission:
A young woman with a gentle face, wearing a white beanie with warm coloured stripes, shields her eyes from the pure sunlight while she waits to cross the traffic junction.
