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Home : 2009 : Jun : 27
This is not my original idea--freely admit stealing it. I think from Roots in the Sawdust, which may now be out of print. My students' notebook has about the same stuff except we keep final publications in a separate portfolio. So I call the notebook My Writing Greenhouse. We talk about a greenhouse as a place for nurturing little plants (ideas), a safe haven for growth (collecting, trying out new things, brainstorming/prewriting, drafting, etc.) and a place where gardeners go for inspiration, new ideas, advice, expert tips, sharing with other gardeners (writers), a warm nest for seedlings to blossom into glorious blooms. Gardeners have standards about what's a strong, healthy plant and what's not (rubrics)--well, the metaphor goes on and on. And of course there are always a few little seeds (ideas) that never sprout or little plants that don't make it and have to be weeded out. To me it conveys so much about the process of real writers.
I don't suppose you could steal My Razzle Dazzle Writing Notebook--love that. Maybe a take-off: Writing Pizzazz, Writing and All That Jazz, Razzmatazz Writing....
I also like Imalith's idea of letting them come up with a name. They could even decorate their own cover sheets and have individual titles after a class brainstorm and playing around with a thesaurus. They could dedicate it to a favorite author.
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