Patrick asked Patrick Kanouse:

Do you keep a Writer’s Notebook? I am a teacher and I have always had my students keep a Writer’s Notebook as a place to collect ideas, write lists, keep memories, ask questions, pen observations, draw in, etc. They love it!

Patrick Kanouse I do, but I switched to digital notetaking a number of years ago. It used to be I had a bunch of small notebooks and then a bigger notebook that I jotted down ideas for. It was great for poetry...could just jot a line down or an image. As I switched to fiction, though, I jumped into using Evernote, where I have categorizations for science fiction versus mystery ideas and I can not research web sites or books or an article that gives me an idea. I did invest in a pen called LiveScribe that can take digital copies of handwritten notes, but as soon as I got it, I injured my wrist, which was painful for months and made writing--even a check--agony. Typing was not, and the pain is no longer there, but the digital notetaking had taken over.

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