Notebook workshops
A half-day workshop on keeping a notebook you will actually keep.
The morning, step by step
Saturdays, 9:30 to 13:00, at the Springfield library reading room (sample).
9:30
Coffee and a blank page
Everyone gets a notebook and a copying pencil.
10:00
What to write down
Lists, days, overheard lines: we try each for ten minutes.
11:00
A short walk
Twenty minutes round the harbour, writing as we go.
11:45
Making an index
Numbering pages and indexing what you wrote this morning.
12:30
Keeping it going
Habits that last past the first month.
Next dates: 8 November and 6 December (sample). $45 a person, example prices.
Who comes
Anyone who has bought a notebook and stopped on page three. No writing experience needed; most people come on their own.
Up to ten people at the library, up to twenty when I come to you.
Book a place
Tell me which date and how many places. I reply within two working days (sample).