Making Web Weaves
Step 1: Start Paying Attention
See poetry in "plain language," in text posts, in signs taped to store windows
Read poetry. Follow poets. Find the images and metaphors and ideas and themes that make you feel alive, or dead, or scared
Notice when a random gif or image or item sticks in your brain. Think about why. Save it
Seek out art, paintings and sculpture and modern and ancient, from artists long-dead and those creating right now
Appreciate things that never struck you as 'art' before - a smooth stone, a pile of shoes, a torn playing card
Appreciate boring more. See things not just as themselves, but as a backing for something else. Notice backdrops, set dressings, sound design. (Backgrounds are a particular skill, and you need it just as much)
Go back and reread short stories and novels and theory, because you just know one line that would be perfect. Read new things, find new perfect lines
Find the nichest of niche blogs, and marvel at them, and save them. That blog that exclusively posts PNGs of antique bumblebee drawings is your new best friend
Get in the habit of bookmarking, screenshotting, saving. Not just the image, but where you got it, when, from who. Even if you don't provide sources you need to know; so you can get more, and so you know where it came from. (Patrons don't have to know where ingredients originated; the chef must)
Note: Even if you never intend to make a web weave, if you never want to, if you think you can't, if you don't know what one is: Try these anyways. See what happens
