From blog posts to poetry: my writing process

Drawing on the inspiration gained from Teju Cole, Maggie Nelson and Moyra Davey I began my writing. And, as I’ve worked I seem to have developed a process for this writing. The process has involved:

• Keeping this digital diary/blog about things I’m doing and thinking about

• Making numbered notes of things that I might write about

• Writing short pieces of prose about my experiences

• Writing short pieces of prose about things I’m reading and researching

• Using the short pieces of prose as starting points for poetry

• Drafting and crafting the prose and poetry

The notes 

		Experience notes		Research notes
No	Title	A/S Exp	other exp & ideas	Other people’s exp & ideas	History & Culture	Maths  & Science
1	Remembering the lane		
2	Out the back		
3	The u-shaped lane		
4	The sun in the laneways					
5	Footsteps					
6	Intimate sounds					
7	Nightmen				
8	In-between space		
9	Dreaming tracks				
10	Twenty feet wide		
11	Backyards glimpses		
12	Who’s in the laneways?	
13	Trees		
14	Written on the fence		
15	Paint patches		
16	Dints in the fences		
17	Washing on the line		
18	Wood, wire and metal		
19	Kids in the laneways
20	Drug deals
21	Rubbish		
22	Light follows from					
23	Plumbing		
24	Unwanted paint	
25	Nine Eastside laneways				
26	The mulberry tree			
27	It rained					
28	Red dust					
29	Ute without an engine				
30	Mica miner’s hut				
31	Corrugations and pot-holes		
32	Birds					
33	Back fences		
34	A dream		
35	Edge – a definition
36	Mparntwe/Alice Springs				
37	Eastside				
38	Street names				
39	Geographical features					
40	Maps				
41	Plants					
42	Back space			
43	To the edge
44	Fences
45	Boundaries