Weird Stuff in My Laptop Bag

I’ve been on the road quite a bit since the end of July. As I was getting ready to pack my laptop case for yet another excursion, I realized I have some odd things in there.

Various sizes/colors of index cards containing such writerly advice as:

Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat beats
word count to page count conversion table
Christopher Vogler’s Writer’s Journey steps
Linda Howard’s “Twelve Steps of Intimacy”
Vorhaus’s The Comic Toolbox” story structure list


Pocket pack of tissue
blank index cards
lip balm
pens/highlighter
screen cleaning cloth
screen cleaning wipes
small notepad.

I keep meaning to buy an 3-prong-to-2-prong adapter to keep there.

It seems as if every time I pack up to go off and write, I think of something else I need to keep handy.

What do you keep in your laptop case?