This fifteen-minute exercise changed the way I write. Forever.
Last month, I watched a Youtube video about something called a glue book.
A glue book is just what it sounds like — a book you glue stuff into. Kind of like a book full of collages, only less precious. Less artsy? It’s something like adult coloring, only using pictures cut from magazines and a glue stick.
I was enthralled. I had a vintage notebook I’d bought at a thrift store for 49 cents and a pile of magazines — I even had a glue stick — so, I figured, why not? I gave it a shot.
That was fun. And while I was making it, I kept thinking about how I could fit glue booking into writing. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a glue book for my novel? Or to glue book the way my main character would?
So, I made one for my work-in-progress novel, Poet.