The Commonplace Collection #1
Virginia Woolf copied lines and observations into notebooks, which often informed her writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson filled journals with passages and reflections gathered from a lifetime of reading.
Historically, writers have long kept ‘commonplace books’ - personal collections of quotations, observations and ideas.
This is a modern interpretation - things worth keeping and (perhaps you’ll agree) worth sharing.
📎 Clippings
Because there’s nothing like subverting expectations …
Shared via Robot Lounge
Being a former IKEA employee has only heightened my enthusiasm for these sorts of memes.
Shared via Joel J Miller
Because you can’t pretend some posts don’t have their own soundtrack:-
Shared via joe alter
✍️ Worth Following
Kristen Weber
In her own words: a former Big 5 editor turned freelance developmental editor specializing in crime fiction and romance.
I love that Kristen’s advice is uncomplicated, which is NOT to say it isn’t encouraging, expert and relevant. If you have writerly goals, it’s definitely worth spending some time inside this editor’s brain.
🎲 Rabbit Hole
She’s someone I affectionately refer to as a “hair bitch” - a person who gives you absolutely no reason to dislike them apart from the deeply irritating fact that their hair is better than anything you could hope to achieve.
Cleo Abram is also way too enthusiastic, but she draws me in EVERY TIME. What she researches and describes really is huge if true (and most of it probably is).
🎵 A Final Note
Come sit by the fire, sing your songs, share your folk tales, and stay awhile …
‘You were only waiting for this moment to arise’ - Paul McCartney, Blackbird (1968)
I love this lyric. Although it was penned by McCartney about the American Civil Rights Movement and the struggle for equality, its theme is universal and enduring.
To me, it speaks of the crossroads of hard work and opportunity - which some people irreverently describe as ‘luck’.
But no. You’ve put in the hard yards, endured, suffered, were good and honest and helped others, and stayed the course. You’re getting what’s due.
These days, I take the lyric as a solitary, literal line. ‘Today is my day.’
Thanks for reading Commonplace Collection #1.
~ Klaire
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