Notebooks & drafts

Writing

Nicole Junkermann keeps writing close to the page — drafts, edits, headings and remembered details that slowly settle into clearer entries.

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Nicole Junkermann writing in a notebook in front of a large world map

Most pages start as fragments. The work is mostly patience — letting the pieces find their order.

01

Notebook rhythm

Short entries kept often beat long ones kept rarely. The notebook moves at a steady, unhurried pace.

02

Drafts and fragments

Half-finished lines are saved rather than discarded; many of them become the start of something clearer.

03

Clearer pages

Editing is mostly removing. What stays behind is usually what the page actually needed all along.

Nicole Junkermann looking over photographs and papers spread across a desk

A page finds its shape

A draft is read aloud, trimmed, and read again. When the sentences stop fighting each other, the entry is finished — and another fragment is waiting.