writing notebooks

Among writers there is a long tradition of keeping diaries and notebooks, and it's fascinating how differently writers use them. For some, the notebook is a place to do exercises and warm up the mind ready for a day of writing. Other writers do all their work in notebooks, while still others use them to keep track of the important facts relating to a piece of work, for example the dates of birth and details of characters, the timeline of events or the connections between settings.

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