Supplies
Whenever I am on the edge of something creative, I sabotage myself by deciding to go shopping for supplies.
A new notebook.
Pretty paper to decorate my new notebook.
Yarn and ribbon to wind through the spirals of my new notebook.
Fresh flair tip pens.
New rugs for the kitchen (so I have a nice view while I write)
Bubble bath.
Good razors (cause I'm out).
5 new songs for my Ipod.
A horsie (just because).
Poets and Writers magazine (for industry news).
The New Yorker (the sophisticated reader's choice).
"The Paris Review Interviews" (for inspiration).
A large, funky, new handbag (to carry Poets and Writers magazine, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review Interviews).
An outfit (to match the largefunkynew handbag).
Lipstick (to match the outfit).
Pho soup (to nourish my creative soul).
A coconut donut (to nourish my five year old soul).
I'm out of control.
The good thing about writing is that you don't need much--a scrap of paper and a pen. Some of my best writing has been tattooed onto the back of a Target receipt with a dying ballpoint pen.
Supplies are good . . .
but writing is even better.
A new notebook.
Pretty paper to decorate my new notebook.
Yarn and ribbon to wind through the spirals of my new notebook.
Fresh flair tip pens.
New rugs for the kitchen (so I have a nice view while I write)
Bubble bath.
Good razors (cause I'm out).
5 new songs for my Ipod.
A horsie (just because).
Poets and Writers magazine (for industry news).
The New Yorker (the sophisticated reader's choice).
"The Paris Review Interviews" (for inspiration).
A large, funky, new handbag (to carry Poets and Writers magazine, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review Interviews).
An outfit (to match the largefunkynew handbag).
Lipstick (to match the outfit).
Pho soup (to nourish my creative soul).
A coconut donut (to nourish my five year old soul).
I'm out of control.
The good thing about writing is that you don't need much--a scrap of paper and a pen. Some of my best writing has been tattooed onto the back of a Target receipt with a dying ballpoint pen.
Supplies are good . . .
but writing is even better.
posted by Cate at 10:03 AM
16 Comments:
Don't you love how one purchase can easily lead to a dozen or more items.
I especially liked the horsie, but you seem more like a pony type-a gal. :)
Yes, I agree that supplies are good but writing is even better. Especially, when it is your writing that I am reading.
LOL. You explained my supply buying process to a tee :) Glad to see I am not the only one who does this :) Cheers!
supplies are good, but target is waaay better! but i must agree, i love getting new paper and pens and notebooks. it's just putting something down in them that i have the problem with of late.
This is soooo true. Why, why do we put so much between ourselves and writing?
Very much enjoyed my time here, wading through your blog...as a poet, and an avid reader, I found it both enlightening and enriching.
Thank you...
LOL - oh, yes that's me too (blushes).
(what's a horsie?)
"New rugs for the kitchen (so I have a nice view while I write)"
HA HA HA HA...I can just see you doing this. Your a riot. Love this post!
a.
I am ALL about preparing for a new project with all sorts of fun accroutemonts (I think I boggled that spelling,but am too lazy to look it up).
Enjoy, Cate!
Hey Cathy!!
Just stopping by to say hello and it's good to see you posting again. I thought the "kitchen was closed" forever. Missed you!
Tanya
You have been back for a few weeks and I didn't even know!! I am sitting here with my laptop having a dinner of chicken and butternut squash fries and I couldn't ask for better reading material as company. I am going to read all the way straight through- SO happy you are back Cate!
I know! I have a box that keeps scraps of this scribble and that note. The best ideas come when I only have the bare minimum of supplies. And I buy a thousand pens and never can find a single one when I need them.
Nice things can help us distance ourselves from the risk we want to take, yet are afraid to. At the same time, glad your nourished your 5 year old.
Now off I go to buy some more pens!
tehe.
I second that. In a meeting: "Excuse me, I'll be back in a second." In the loo, "Scribble, scribble, scribble." Then it is back to the meeting.
Ooooh Pho!
Good luck with the new writing project. Hope you can share some of your work with us.
I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one who does this. My supplies are generally confied to music and beverages. I need tea or coffee or juice or wine and new tunes on my Ipod before I can write.
Thanks, everyone! So nice to know that I am not alone with my supply fetish.
P.S. Alexandra, those butternut squash fries sound like something my husband would LOVE!
P.P.S. BB, a "horsie" is just my juvenile reference to a horse. When I was a kid, a few of my friends always wanted horses for their birthdays, which seemed, to me, an outrageous request (and, of course, they never got them). I am not a horse person but I still add "horsie" to most request lists--grocery, Christmas, birthday. Just to be funny. Which often falls flat. :)
Well isn't that the truth. Beautiful!
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