Lately I have been writing more, but not necessarily in a writer's notebook. I bought one two years ago and it sits on the bookshelf in my home office still in the cellophane wrapper. I used to keep journals when I was in school, and I came across several of them the other day when I was cleaning and organizing. They are books, I wrote in them, but I never really thought of them as writer's notebooks, and I haven't written in one of them for ten years.
I may not keep a writer's notebook per se, but what I do have are over 26,000 words of a middle grades manuscript written and saved to my personal computer. I have random thoughts for other stories saved in Evernote via my phone and Ipad. I have old-fashioned paper lists and sticky notes that clutter my desk. A Facebook timeline and a Twitter feed post my latest thoughts and shenanigans (well, a few of them). On Goodreads, I keep a running list of books I've read and books I want to read. And, of course, I started this blog last month.
Sounds like a bunch of random projects I may never finish, huh? But isn't that what being creative is all about? Someone else mentioned that they are too much of a perfectionist to keep a writer's notebook. I wouldn't say I'm a perfectionist, but I can move my words around easier when they aren't all bound in a little black book.
Note: Today is the first day of an online workshop lead by author Kate Messner called Teachers Write. I am excited to be participating this summer!
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