Poetry + technology, in video

Recently, my colleagues at my Microsoft job asked me whether I'd be interested in talking, on camera, about how I use OneNote to write poetry.

Would I ever!

This was a real grown-up video, with a professional make-up artist (thank you so much) and a big heavy camera and a lot of planning and an interview (a little scary).

But what a great opportunity to bring poetry and writing center stage.

And then my husband said,

"Of course you're going to take your computer."

"No, I wasn't planning to."

"Well, you'll want to show everyone how you use OneNote."

Good point.

The computer's coming along. If the wi-fi works as advertised, I'll check in from Bowling Green.

Keep track of your drafts (or How to avoid being buried in paper)

A while ago, I posted a link to a video about using OneNote to keep track of notes. At the time, I mentioned that next I would show you how I use OneNote to write poetry.

Here it is:
Poetry notes with OneNote

How did this come about? A group of us were talking about wanting to keep old drafts and then trying to manage all the versions and the stacks of paper. I told about how I'd switched over to using OneNote, and people wanted to know more. I can explain it, and I'm always happy to, but it's so much more convincing in action.

If you've already seen me post this link elsewhere 25 times—well, I'm just pretty excited about it.

What do you think? How do you manage your drafts?

Next up: How to pull all your poems (or chapters or recipes) into a single manuscript, with page numbers and a table of contents and everything.

Lights, camera, video!

Recently at work, I signed up to write a script for a video about how students could use Microsoft OneNote.

Now, with several script drafts and a lot of help from a lot of people, it's live:

Demo: Take OneNote to class

I had a lot of fun working on this project, partly because OneNote is fun. It's my favorite software tool to use. If you aren't familiar with it, check out the video to get a glimpse of it in action.

Next up, I'll try to pull together a little something about how I've been using OneNote for writing poetry.