Bird by Bird: Index Cards

"One of the things that happens when you give yourself permission to start writing tis that you start thinking like a writer.  You start seeing things as material."  (Lamott 136)

Everything--an incident, a flashback, a smell, everything--can be used as material for a writing piece.  This is what I am experiencing now as I advance toward writing better poetry and prose in this class.  The piece itself isn't always that great at first, but it will become noteworthy after some refining.  And index cards are just the things to start off with.