“A writer’s notebook is not a diary. Writers react. Writers need a place to record these reactions. That’s what a writer’s notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don’t want to forget. A writer’s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer.” - Ralph Fletcher
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
She asked me what I studied …
She asked me what I studied…”all those years in school.” I told her I studied the literature and poetry of war, specifically American war, specifically the Vietnam War. See, my father was in Vietnam in ‘67—drafted. So, I really wanted to understand what he’d gone through. That’s what I told her. And she just said: “Oh.”
[CB, 7/5/12]
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