Quote of the day:
“I bought ten blue notebooks from Walmart and I have filled five of them so far. It’s not OCD or anything, I’m just prepared in case it turns out that it’s the blue notebook doing all the work.”
I’ve been meaning to check out the notebook offerings at WalMart… this has given me [...]
Here’s a big batch of notebooks, all donated for underprivileged kids attending government schools in India:
And here’s some of the kids who are using them now:
What a great idea…
Read more at Notebook Distribution Program @ HD Kote « i Thought, i Think i’d Blog – Sandeep.
This week’s Addict is a self-described “traveling folk rocker” who mentions picking up some pebbles along the way. She also picked up some notebooks!
These were found while helping her mother prepare for a move:
The most time-consuming part of packing was organizing all of my notebooks, CDs, and cassettes from over the years – the volume [...]
I’m impressed by Anne at Tagged and Cajoled, who writes about here notebooks in this post. She always knows where to look for things she’s jotted down. I sometimes know but often I might have to search back through several notebooks for something I know I’ve written, but I’m not sure exactly when or where.
I [...]
From Canada’s National Post, a nice appreciation of the pleasures of notebooks, pens and other supplies: Move over Moleskine.
Oh, how I longed for that pack of Prismacolor pencils! Yet every year my consolation prize was a plastic pack of Laurentiens and, if I was lucky, a fruit-scented eraser. But the gold-tipped deep red Prismacolor box [...]
Here’s someone who is a notebook addict and a bit of a philosopher too, it seems. Many of the notebooks seem to be the red and black ones made in China and sold in stores such as Pearl River Mart in NYC. I have one in my collection that was bought in Boston’s Chinatown many [...]
Nothing like an afternoon spent sitting on the deck, with some nice plants and a stack of notebooks to review…
A WikiHow page on “How to Keep a Notebook:”
Step 1: Decide the purpose for your notebook. Will you write down your inventions? Will you write ideas for the screenplay, novel, poems you will someday write? Will you write down thoughts and ideas related to a particular project? Or do you simply want to have a [...]
I retrieved a ton of old notebooks from my parents’ basement– I had totally forgotten about some of these! I am looking forward to rediscovering some favorites from my childhood collection and posting them here!
At Megaquotes, there’s quite a list of quotes about writing. The ones below made me think about my own notebooks:
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948 (All those nice fresh notebooks [...]
