A writer at work: Agatha Christie's messy notebooks

.. "The Mystery of the Messy Notebooks" in Slate Magazine is a wonderful article on Agatha Christie's notebooks: so messy! (So creative.) It gives us all hope!

I'm not so keen on the family notes, however:

Even Christie's second husband, the archeologist Sir Max Mallowan, used her notebooks. He jotted down calculations. Christie's daughter Rosalind practiced penmanship, and the whole family kept track of their bridge scores alongside notes like, "Possibilities of poison … cyanide in...