The Writer’s Notebook

Falconer, D

The Writer’s Notebook

Falconer, D

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Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Creative Writing Practice Reflections on Form and Process, 2021, pp. 103-120
Issue Date:: 2021-11-13

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dc.contributor.author	Falconer, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7531-1781
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-10T21:45:12Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-10T21:45:12Z
dc.date.issued	2021-11-13
dc.identifier.citation	Creative Writing Practice Reflections on Form and Process, 2021, pp. 103-120
dc.identifier.isbn	3030736733
dc.identifier.isbn	9783030736736
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dc.description.abstract	This chapter examines the formal expectations, uses, and long history of the writer’s notebook. Although the notebook is not a “genre”, writers—including the author—tend to structure notebooks and talk about them in similar ways. Having kept notebooks herself throughout her writing life, she explores the differences between notebook and diary, the different “strands” they often contain, and their fragmentary, ongoing, and talismanic functions. Drawing on the works of Roland Barthes, Michael Taussig, and Michel Foucault, histories of the “commonplace book”, and the ways in which writers themselves discuss their notebooks, she concludes that the notebook does complex work, combining systems for freeing a private voice with older disciplines of “self-fashioning”, deriving its generative energy from its juxtaposition of these contradictory elements..
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dc.title	The Writer’s Notebook
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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This chapter examines the formal expectations, uses, and long history of the writer’s notebook. Although the notebook is not a “genre”, writers—including the author—tend to structure notebooks and talk about them in similar ways. Having kept notebooks herself throughout her writing life, she explores the differences between notebook and diary, the different “strands” they often contain, and their fragmentary, ongoing, and talismanic functions. Drawing on the works of Roland Barthes, Michael Taussig, and Michel Foucault, histories of the “commonplace book”, and the ways in which writers themselves discuss their notebooks, she concludes that the notebook does complex work, combining systems for freeing a private voice with older disciplines of “self-fashioning”, deriving its generative energy from its juxtaposition of these contradictory elements..

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