“All created works forged in their notebooks…”

As you’ve probably guessed, the title is is a quote from Monday’s Recommended Reading post on The Notebook: A History Of Thinking On Paper (The Notebook) by Roland Allen.

You may even recall it verbatim, only a few days having passed since the review posted.

The quote refers to how a range of authors from Geoffrey Chaucer to the current era have used notebooks to jot ideas, draft text, and forge works of literature. The chapter in the book devoted to writing is titled “Yes, better if dentist i...