So when I tried to get back into the book, I lost my page and my momentum to continue. Thus, I decided to read a book review.

New York Times article – “‘In the Margins’ Offers a Path into Elena Ferrante’s Mind”

I found it quite interesting that the reviewer compares Ferrante’s writing process juxtaposed to Joan Didion‘s process:

“In her theory of writing, Ferrante stands opposed to someone like Joan Didion. Didion famously insisted that she wrote in order to find out what she thought. (“Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.”) In Ferrante’s case, the act is a flawed transcription of what she calls “the brain wave.” For Didion, everything was gained in the voyage from mind to pen; for Ferrante, much goes missing.”

Reading Ferrante’s process felt like an insight to think about my process.

I am focused on “straight” image-making, as I have heard others say in my photo critiques. I try to stay within my lane of photography, but there are thoughts of making an image that is so much out of the comfort zone that I have yet to make the image. The images stay hidden in my notebook and my mind.