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On a whim, I've decided to set up a proper writer's notebook!
I've done this before, with less than great results. I also used a cheap spiral notebook, the kind I got when the school supplies went on clearance, but I'm ready to give it a chance again. In my head, said notebook looks like a hybrid between what I'd tried before, a place to keep writing ideas/planning/etc, crossed with my bullet journal. I almost decided to just add a couple pages to my bullet journal, but that's dedicated to keeping my actual life in order, and I wanted the writing stuff to be separate from that.
Plus, I want something I can carry back and forth to work so I can jot down notes while on break that won't get easily lost. I have notebooks set up for two of my projects (A Hero Lies In You and One New Message), but this would encompass all of my writing together. So I went into the Notebook Hoard.
(As we all know, there are two rules to being a writer. One, you hoard notebooks. Two, you do not write in the notebook hoard. But life is short and I am broke.)
The journal still had the receipt in it - from Borders in Waterford, CT, on June 25, 2011. I don't know why the fuck I was in Waterford in June 2011, but I do know that I was shopping with my mother and she rolled her eyes at my buying another notebook. But it's so pretty, with a bird and a butterfly on the cover, with a coptic binding that will let me lay the book flat as I write in it, which was a requirement for this new journal.
Now to decide what pages to make from the get go! I plan to include:
- an index
- numbered pages
- character name list (for cool names that I hear and want to save for future characters)
- prompt ideas
- writing quotes
- lyrics that will make good inspiration/prompts
- mini outlines/ideas for fics
- writing goals
What other things should I include? Are there pages in your writer's notebooks that work for you? Let's discuss!
I've done this before, with less than great results. I also used a cheap spiral notebook, the kind I got when the school supplies went on clearance, but I'm ready to give it a chance again. In my head, said notebook looks like a hybrid between what I'd tried before, a place to keep writing ideas/planning/etc, crossed with my bullet journal. I almost decided to just add a couple pages to my bullet journal, but that's dedicated to keeping my actual life in order, and I wanted the writing stuff to be separate from that.
Plus, I want something I can carry back and forth to work so I can jot down notes while on break that won't get easily lost. I have notebooks set up for two of my projects (A Hero Lies In You and One New Message), but this would encompass all of my writing together. So I went into the Notebook Hoard.
(As we all know, there are two rules to being a writer. One, you hoard notebooks. Two, you do not write in the notebook hoard. But life is short and I am broke.)
The journal still had the receipt in it - from Borders in Waterford, CT, on June 25, 2011. I don't know why the fuck I was in Waterford in June 2011, but I do know that I was shopping with my mother and she rolled her eyes at my buying another notebook. But it's so pretty, with a bird and a butterfly on the cover, with a coptic binding that will let me lay the book flat as I write in it, which was a requirement for this new journal.
Now to decide what pages to make from the get go! I plan to include:
- an index
- numbered pages
- character name list (for cool names that I hear and want to save for future characters)
- prompt ideas
- writing quotes
- lyrics that will make good inspiration/prompts
- mini outlines/ideas for fics
- writing goals
What other things should I include? Are there pages in your writer's notebooks that work for you? Let's discuss!
