Notebooks/Journals

[helixnine]

Ever since I was smaller than I am now, I've had trouble with notebooks. I can't get enough of them, for one. For two? I never write anything in them. Particularly the ones I like

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[incommune]

Just open it up and put pen to paper. A variety of things

[intravenousants]

So, I've had to come to the slow, boiling-acid conclusion that rough drafts are meant to be shit, that there's no point in beginning to write except to get to revision (see my last several LJ posts, and the particular activity in which I'm currently engaged.)

The process of idea generation is, however, necessary to yield any good writing, and given a linear reality, things have to start somewhere...

I'd also focus less on the physical artifact... Get a legal pad, and then scratch your second drafts into the nice notebooks from there.

[nora_knickers]

You know - I have exactly the same problem. Well, almost exactly. I rarely hate my notebook (or despise it), but I do have a hard time finding interesting things to say in them. The stuff I write down just doesn't come out right...and then I lose the thread of whatever I was thinking.

I do hate that.

[_wirehead_]

i do this with paper journals too, but as long as i write in crappy 89 cent spiral-bound notebooks, it's fine. livejournal is ok too -- maybe because i can edit/delete with abandon, and don't have to attempt to decipher my own ugly-ass handwriting.

[ferrousoxide]

I have exactly the same issue. Except, i always start a fresh notebook by writing on the last page. I have a ton of journals where only the last page has text.