‘Post-it’ notes in the Will Self archive
Resource type
Blog post
Creator (person)
Beckett, Chris
Date published
March 24, 2017
Abstract
'My books begin life in notebooks, then they move on to Post-it notes, the Post-its go up on the walls of the room […] short story ideas, tropes, metaphors, gags, characters, etc. When I'm working on a book, the Post-its come down off the wall and go into scrapbooks.’ (‘Writers' Rooms: Will Self’, The Guardian, 6 April 2007.)
Here’s Self’s writing room in 71 photographs: http://www.will-self.com/writing-room/index.php
The photographs capture the scale of the author’s devotion to the little yellow pad. The scrapbooks into which Self has gathered the ‘post-it’ notes now form part of his archive at the British Library. Grid-like on the wall, and grid-like in the scrapbooks, the notes intrigue and fascinate. They are little doorways into the text, little honeycomb cells of access.
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
London, UK
Rights statement
In Copyright