How to Write Your World

Look closer...document, observe, trace, use, notice, consider everything. How to find a writing project? Connect meaningfully to the world, by becoming an explorer of your world. Look closer at what you already know, what you love, who you are.

This past week, I found a book recommendation on Maria Popova's truly amazing blog, Brain Pickings. Below are the notes author Keri Smith "scribbled on a piece of paper in the middle of a sleepless night in 2007," ideas that formed the structure of her 2008 book, How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum.