Writing Wednesday: The Idea Notebook

[eilis_oneal]

When I was 16, Walter Dean Myers came to Tulsa as the winner of our local library’s Anne V. Zarrow Award for young people's literature, and he gave a talk to a group of young, aspiring writers, which included me. One of the things he talked about this tiny notebook he carried around with him everywhere. He was never without it, because an idea

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[naamah_darling]

Okay, so I woke up night before last with this

[eilis_oneal]

*blinks slowly*

Wow, I'm seriously impressed that you were able to cobble all that back together from the eye chart you wrote on your hand. That's really impressive. I've sometimes had to try and refigure something that I wrote in the middle of the night that I can't read, but not on that level.