On Keeping More Than One Notebook

A writer should always keep a notebook. And I do! But what if you keep more than one? What if one notebook simply isn’t enough to sort your thoughts, ideas, projects? Simple: then you keep multiple concurrent notebooks.

The Purse Notebook

It used to be that I had only one notebook, which I always carried in my purse. It was small, so it would fit and not weigh too much. Everything went in there: grocery lists, to-do lists, quotes, brainstorms for an essay. This is where I wrote down people’s...