Comments on: Question of the Week: Snippets http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/ LitPark Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: LitPark will re-open in September http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-12006 LitPark will re-open in September Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:26:43 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-12006 [...] * The Pitch * Vacation * Balancing Art and Family * Fantasy and Science Fiction * The Book Tour * Snippets * Telling Mom * Setting * High School Secrets * Your Hidden Side * Out-of-the-Box * Aliases * [...] [...] * The Pitch * Vacation * Balancing Art and Family * Fantasy and Science Fiction * The Book Tour * Snippets * Telling Mom * Setting * High School Secrets * Your Hidden Side * Out-of-the-Box * Aliases * [...]

]]> By: Aurelio http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1247 Aurelio Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:03:37 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1247 I have a large lower desk drawer stuffed full of varied bits of paper and no-longer-sticky sticky notes. They are concepts, book titles, story ideas, and funny dialog I've overheard in public. "It's not the eggroll, Harry, it's the last 30 years!" These are mixed in with cartoon drawings and doodles and phone numbers with names of people I no longer recall. I find that I actually <I>do</I> use some of these things from time to time. I have a large lower desk drawer stuffed full of varied bits of paper and no-longer-sticky sticky notes. They are concepts, book titles, story ideas, and funny dialog I’ve overheard in public. “It’s not the eggroll, Harry, it’s the last 30 years!” These are mixed in with cartoon drawings and doodles and phone numbers with names of people I no longer recall.

I find that I actually do use some of these things from time to time.

]]> By: Jordan http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1246 Jordan Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:21:58 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1246 I have some kind of organizational dyslexia. I can keep all kinds of details straight in my head, but once I begin to extract them--usually in list form--I begin to panic. Which notebook should they go in? My personal journal, reserved for lamentations and melancholic whining? My "novel notebook" containing information on my latest notebook? My "journalist" notebook, full of chickenscratch interview stuff...or one of the many half-filled notebooks tucked into the crevices of my bookshelf? After hyperventilating and pulling out my eyebrows, I often opt to write upon my person and transfer to computer. I would really love a "cure" for this disorder. I have some kind of organizational dyslexia. I can keep all kinds of details straight in my head, but once I begin to extract them–usually in list form–I begin to panic. Which notebook should they go in? My personal journal, reserved for lamentations and melancholic whining? My “novel notebook” containing information on my latest notebook? My “journalist” notebook, full of chickenscratch interview stuff…or one of the many half-filled notebooks tucked into the crevices of my bookshelf? After hyperventilating and pulling out my eyebrows, I often opt to write upon my person and transfer to computer. I would really love a “cure” for this disorder.

]]> By: Darrin http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1245 Darrin Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:11:07 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1245 Oh, yes, snippets. Those restless orphans. I end up scrawling some of them onto whatever scrap paper is handy. And if one of them strikes me when I'm on the subway and I can't reach a scrap, I'll chant the thing in my head over and over again so I won't forget it. It's awful when three or four of the suckers come at me at once. That's a lot of chanting. The ones that make it back to my apartment will get transferred to a file on my PC. I have the same concerns as Andy in that I think I will never have the time to flesh out all these snippets. It's a "hard knock life" for some of the snippets, I guess. Oh, yes, snippets. Those restless orphans. I end up scrawling some of them onto whatever scrap paper is handy. And if one of them strikes me when I’m on the subway and I can’t reach a scrap, I’ll chant the thing in my head over and over again so I won’t forget it. It’s awful when three or four of the suckers come at me at once. That’s a lot of chanting.

The ones that make it back to my apartment will get transferred to a file on my PC. I have the same concerns as Andy in that I think I will never have the time to flesh out all these snippets. It’s a “hard knock life” for some of the snippets, I guess.

]]> By: Ric Marion http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1244 Ric Marion Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:12:56 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1244 Snippits - stopped writing them down years ago, since I could never organize them well enough to find them when the time was right. Most of the great first lines end up in the journals - now a huge stack filling two filing cabinet drawers. Blue letter size pads - legal but shorter. Sometimes the first line will fill a couple pages and then, as with us all, we go back and wonder what all the excitement was. Ric http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/RicMarion/ Snippits – stopped writing them down years ago, since I could never organize them well enough to find them when the time was right.

Most of the great first lines end up in the journals – now a huge stack filling two filing cabinet drawers. Blue letter size pads – legal but shorter. Sometimes the first line will fill a couple pages and then, as with us all, we go back and wonder what all the excitement was.

Ric
http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/RicMarion/

]]> By: Gail Siegel http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1243 Gail Siegel Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:01:30 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1243 Memo to Joe: Take a deep breath. It only gets worse. Memo to Joe: Take a deep breath. It only gets worse.

]]> By: *Joe* http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1242 *Joe* Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:25:44 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1242 It's kind of a repeat of the <a href="http://litpark.com/2006/09/04/question-of-the-week-your-space-roy-kesey/#comment-50" rel="nofollow">COMMENTl</a> I posted to your question of the week from way back in early September but I'm the write things down on a scrap of paper, ticket stub, parking ticket kind of guy. Fortunately I never throw anything away or pay my parking tickets so it's there waiting for me in my jacket pocket till I'm ready to use it. Sometimes it goes through a wash cycle or two though. Man, you are freaking me out with that story about Green Hand. My little girl Moira will turn one year old in another two weeks. I lay awake at night worrying about whether I've padded all the sharp edges in the house. Tell me it gets better. Lie to me if you must. It’s kind of a repeat of the
COMMENTl I posted to your question of the week from way back in early September but I’m the write things down on a scrap of paper, ticket stub, parking ticket kind of guy. Fortunately I never throw anything away or pay my parking tickets so it’s there waiting for me in my jacket pocket till I’m ready to use it.

Sometimes it goes through a wash cycle or two though.

Man, you are freaking me out with that story about Green Hand. My little girl Moira will turn one year old in another two weeks. I lay awake at night worrying about whether I’ve padded all the sharp edges in the house. Tell me it gets better. Lie to me if you must.

]]> By: Noria http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1241 Noria Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:48:32 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1241 I write them down when they occur - on the day, in the margins, anywhere on the page for that week. Then I'll fold over that page for future reference. For whatever reason, the fact that I've written it down in my engagement book helps me to remember it. It's a way of psychologically tricking myself into remembering. I write them down when they occur – on the day, in the margins, anywhere on the page for that week. Then I’ll fold over that page for future reference. For whatever reason, the fact that I’ve written it down in my engagement book helps me to remember it. It’s a way of psychologically tricking myself into remembering.

]]> By: Anneliese http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1240 Anneliese Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:23:05 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1240 Noria: Do you write your ideas down on the day that you have them, or do you sorta-like "schedule" them on a future date, like a month in advance? *Anneliese Noria:

Do you write your ideas down on the day that you have them, or do you sorta-like “schedule” them on a future date, like a month in advance?

*Anneliese

]]> By: Susan Henderson http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1239 Susan Henderson Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:53:55 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-snippets/#comment-1239 I'm jealous of all of you with fancy moleskines, especially those signed by beautiful Neil Gaiman (who owes me an email). I'm like Gail, more of a back-of-the-receipt girl. I'll respond to everyone individually on Friday's Weekly Wrap. Thanks for all the kind words about Green-Hand! Especially from those of you who are parents and know how it is. I’m jealous of all of you with fancy moleskines, especially those signed by beautiful Neil Gaiman (who owes me an email). I’m like Gail, more of a back-of-the-receipt girl. I’ll respond to everyone individually on Friday’s Weekly Wrap.

Thanks for all the kind words about Green-Hand! Especially from those of you who are parents and know how it is.

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