The Beauty and Possibility of a New Notebook

Excitement builds in my tummy as I peruse the pretty notebooks trying to find the perfect one. The one to be filled with all the ideas flying around my brain. The one that will provide inspiration. The one I won’t get sick of when my work in progress isn’t working or progressing.

Sometimes the colors match the season I’m writing about, or reflect the feel of an era, other times they are just plain pretty and make me happy. This should be enough to get me through the tough times when ideas don’t flow, sentences don’t read well and plot holes emerge.

As a writer, I use one notebook for each novel. It’s filled with jottings, lines of dialogue that come to me in the middle of the night, ideas of settings, sometimes maps, or sketches of houses. It will take me through from initial concept, first draft, subsequent re-drafts, all the way to final edits. Often they will include loglines, book blurb and cover ideas.

Each notebook, when it is finished, will signify the end of a job well done. It becomes the embodiment of an idea taken from start to finish and stands testament to the tears shed along the way, or the smiles that emerge when the hard task is over.

A notebook is not just a notebook, it’s evidence of my personal journey, of a world I’ve created and populated with characters of my own making. It reminds me what I can achieve by taking things one step at a time.

What do yours say about you?

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