Let's Get it Started

As the first class meeting for E-339 came to a close, I began brainstorming what I would post on this new blog of mine. I went home and began reading the assigned text, A Writer's Notebook. The first page had me quite confused, wondering why I was reading about creatures being stuck in a ditch. By the second page, I already had a better understanding of what exactly a writer's notebook is from the excerpt: "A writer's notebook is like that ditch-an empty space you dig in your busy life, a space that will fill up with all sorts of fascinating little creatures. If you dig it, they will come. You'll be amazed by what you catch there." As I continued reading, it also became clear the main difference that I could not differentiate between earlier in class- the writer's notebook vs the diary/journal. It's almost as if anything that pops into your head, random or not can be recorded in this writer's notebook. Being prone to liking unstructured ways of life and freedom, this made the idea of the little notebook thing a bit more intriguing. I must say I'm curious as to what the end product will look like, and well.....I might like this after all.