I blame Kathleen…and a book giveaway!

So, this year at RWA National, I roomed with Kathleen O'Reilly and Dee Davis, which for the past ten years (wow) is nothing unusual. And Kathleen spent a lot of time in the room writing. Which is nothing unusual. And she wrote on paper. Which is nothing unusual. AND this time I noticed because I am enamored of all things Levenger, and she was using the Circa system, which I've had my eye on for a while.

Yes, yes, I know I love my iPad and all my various electronic gadgets, but I love paper the most of all. And the truth is, I'm a scribbler. I recently decided that I wanted to keep a journal. I'm a terrible journaler–why I decide every couple of years that I should do this is beyond me). But this time, since I know I'm a terrible journaler, I figured I would just suck it up and include lists and doodles and whatnots in the journal. A record of life, I'd call it. And so I bought a journal from Office Depot, and sure enough, a few lame journal entries–and lots of lists. Grocery lists. To do lists. Story point lists. You name it, I listed it. And the journal/notebook/list-o-rama became unwieldy.

That's when I remembered Kathleen and the Circa idea. Because the whole shtick is that you can re-arrange the pages. So I can scribble … and then move and/or remove. Yay!

So I ordered the sampler, loved it, and immediately turned around and ordered the hole punch, a cover (pink!) and a bunch of the disks you use to bind. Now I'm transferring my Shadow Keepers story bible into paper form. It'll still be electronic, but I'll be able to flip.

What can I say? I'm a techno gal with a paper geek heart…

And since my current use of this new-found paper love is to organize a Shadow Keepers story bible, I figure that this week's give-away can be Winner's Choice. I have a new Shadow Keepers book out this week–WHEN WICKED CRAVES–but the first three books have come out super fast. So all you have to do is comment this week to be in the running to win your choice of WHEN BLOOD CALLS, WHEN PLEASURE RULES or WHEN WICKED CRAVES!

So what about you? Are you paper or electronic. Or, like me, do you go back and forth depending on your mood, the tide, or who won last year's Super Bowl?