Artefacts of the Writing Life #3: The Notebook

Recently I’ve been sharing a few artefacts* of the writing life with you and this week’s exhibit is the notebook. No, not the electronic kind, useful though they are, but the good old-fashioned, bound-between-two-covers and maybe-(even)-secured-with-a-fastener kind.

What’s so good or essential about this sort of  notebook you may ask? And wasn’t it covered by the Artefact #1 Pen and Paper entry?

But no, dear readers, in terms of the latter: the reason the notebook is an entry in its own right...