Writing Notebooks: My history with them, my current setup, and my thought process--Writing Notebook vs. Thinking Book?
I said I was going to take a break, then I went ahead and jumped into this one! 😂 Stephen King once said something about writing notebooks being a place where "ideas go to die." While I kinda get what he meant--you write something down, but if you never go back to it, the idea dies--I also feel like notebooks are vital to writing. He also said something about "the best ideas stick with you," and that's true to an extent--look at how long I've been working with the same basic idea for my stories!--but when it comes to remembering details, brainstorming, catching scenes and tidbits, stuff like that--you have to have some place to capture those ideas and work thru them. Therefore, no offense to the great King, but I will continue to use a notebook, thank you very much. Having said that, my previous writing notebooks have been hit or miss for various reasons. I'd often overcomplicate them or get hung up on aesthetics vs. function. It took me years to find t...