I was very flattered to receive an email from this week’s addict, as she is a highly-regarded children’s author whose books I was already familiar with– the kind of person I’d usually want to ask about their notebook usage, but be too shy to actually do so! Candice wrote 3 blog posts a few months … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Candice Ransom
This week’s addict emailed me a link to her first and second blog posts about her obsession with journals: From Part 1: Yes it is true, I love notebooks. I mean L.O.V.E. I buy them because I like the size. I buy them because I like the shape. I buy them because of the cover. … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Shelley
Here’s a writer who is an enthusiastic advocate for using a pocket notebook, in his case, a Paperblanks. What I’m advocating is having a small notebook (and a mini-pen — those things don’t break when you sit on them, and can fit in a front jeans pocket) ready with you so you can be ready … Continue reading Howard Andrew Jones’ Writing Tools
Here’s another blogger pondering the dilemma of the Moleskine brand: As I approach the cash register to purchase a Moleskine Notebook, I couldn’t help but think of post #122 in “Stuff White People Like” that rails against the cliche mode of thought that one can be declaratively “creative” and need an expensive notebook that offers … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: “Cliche or Cool?”
Paul, a former Notebook Addict of the Month, sent me these images of Jack Kerouac’s notebooks. I have to say that I read On the Road and it did NOT make me a Kerouac fan at all… but seeing his notebooks might just change my mind! Paul writes “The first picture is the front page … Continue reading Reader Week: Kerouac’s Notebooks
From Better Writing Habits, some thoughts on The 3 Notebooks Every Writer Should Keep. A Morning Pages Journal Created by writing and creativity coach, Julia Cameron, Morning Pages are three hand-written stream-of-consciousness pages you write first thing when you wake up in the morning, before you do anything else. Cameron specializes in creative unblocking and … Continue reading The 3 Notebooks Every Writer Should Keep
This week’s addict is a YA writer who considers herself obsessed with notebooks and displays this colorful selection: These were the notebooks just within reaching distance from where I was sitting. And you’d think I’d feel bad about that, but rounding them up and taking a picture made me smile. I’m pretty sure that makes … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Natalie Whipple
Check out Claire Cameron’s blog. Most of the blog entries are scanned notebook pages! [Updated with a new link!]
I stumbled across this blog post by Eddy, who shows off some photos of his journals, and talks about how he uses them: Since I started using notebooks, I’ve kept all of my projects in one notebook, instead of using multiple notebooks for multiple projects. Usually I have had only a couple of things going … Continue reading Eddy’s Three Journals
I’ve been reading Orhan Pamuk’s fascinating book Istanbul: Memories and the City. It’s an interesting mix of city history and personal memoir, and here’s a passage I had to share: “My grandmother always kept with her a slim leather-bound notebook in which she wrote something every day. This notebook, in which she recorded bills, memories, … Continue reading A Turkish Grandmother’s Notebook