“Unlock the Hidden Treasures: What Secrets Lurk in Your Creative Writing Notebook?”
Watson-Guptill sketchbooks (aff link).
One of my favorites was a Watson-Guptill Sketchbook in which I did anything and everything creative: fiction, poetry, free writes, brainstorming, even drawing. It was my go-to notebook for creativity.
But then I decided to try different notebooks for different projects.
I was generating a lot of ideas for novels. But these ideas were getting buried in the pages of my notebook, and it was difficult to find a scene or character sketch within its pages. Ideas for a single project were spread out in the pages of my notebook. I wanted a system to organize all those ideas and keep projects separate and contained, so I purchased a handful of composition notebooks. They’re cheap but sturdy, and I used them for individual projects for a few years. Eventually, I moved away from that system, because I ended up with a bunch of notebooks that only had writing in the first few pages for any project that didn’t get past the brainstorming stage. Stories that did get past the brainstorming stage got migrated to the computer, so they too were only partially filled.
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