Here is the notebook I am currently using for my work in progress. As you can see, it gets quite jumbled up. I tend to write as quickly as possible, because thoughts literally escape my mind as fast as they enter. Sometimes this means that what I have written becomes illegible. I’ll type up the notes at a later date, usually using Google docs (or Celtx for scripts). I very often can’t decipher my own handwriting, however it can lead to some interesting modifications during the translation process.
I earn the majority of my income as a copywriter, for that job I am joined to laptop keyboard, often writing several thousand words each day. As such, I find that the freedom of writing by hand can give a renewed sense of creativity.
I tend to start a new notebook for each project. This one is a Peter Pan Moleskin
I’d love to hear about what you all write on. Are you purely digital, or do you have a favourite notebook?
Disclosure
Purely digital, although I only read printed novels. Best of luck with your writing projects.
Thanks! And to you too!
That looks excellent 🙂 I like writing in notebooks, it’s good for keeping track of projects, like you say 🙂
I love doing both. I tend to have moods and will switch. I find that it’s easier to type because the rate of thinking/words appearing can feel seamless. But writing by hand can be quite therapeutic and sometimes it’ll lean towards stream of consciousness. Digitally I think I tend to be more structured. I love the quote on your notebook btw.
Thank you!
It’s always interesting to hear how others think and work.
I do both. I have a note book that I jot down ideas, odd phrases, an almost forgotten quotation….only to look at my spider scrawl later trying to decipher what I’ve written. So if I have my laptop handy I prefer to get the ideas typed into my drafts on WordPress. At least I can easily read them later that way. Oh, and thank you for liking my latest attempt at poetry. Much appreciated.
I’m glad to hear I am not the only one with a spiders scrawl! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Constantly. Obsessively. Driven by an irrational fear that I’ll die before I say everything I want to say, and that’s a fairly recent development. I mostly write digitally, but if the power’s out or my charge is low I’ll revert back to a notebook. I feel like I’ve wasted my day if I don’t crank something out, whether it be part of a WIP or just a random short story.
I love this answer! Keep up the writing.
Figured I’d let mental illness work FOR me instead of against me. 😅
It’s the best way! See it as your superpower not your weakness.
Great post. I’ve been a discovery writer for the most part, but I’ve tried doing more planning so I don’t struggle so much in process. I scribble names, plot points and various ideas in a composition notebook and refer to it as writing. I think I enjoy the discovery writing aspect too much to do a lot of outlining , but scribbling notes and such does help.
Thanks for the post.
I have a classic “marble-cover” paper journal – cheap – 100 pages – and sometimes I fill one per month. Other times I fill one over three months – depends.
I love your Peter Pan one – and like seeing your writing – can feel the energy
thanks 🙂 get it does look enegetic. I have always thought my writing is lazy, but I do write fast and try and get things out of my head before the thoughts pass and I’m left with a void in my braid again!
a notepad a month is good going. And I like the idea of using the same type of note pad each time.
Yeah – using the same kind of notebook makes them easy to store – I learned that a while back – and sometimes use 70 page spiral ones.
Happy writing and hope
You have a good weekend
I type more often these days, but still keep a nice journal for writing in at times. And a notebook for dragging with me places laptop cannot go. Your Peter Pan book makes me a smidgen envious. I love to fill beautiful books with worthy stories. 🙂