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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.~~ J. K. Rowling
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.~~ Al Yankovic
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook. ~~Jay-Z
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I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around. ~~Richard Paul Evans
There is nothing like a brand-new notebook!
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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.~~ Libba Bray
Mara ♣ McBain  and I was talking and she mentioned how, while school wasn't her favorite thing in the world, she LOVED getting the new notebooks and pens at the beginning of the school year. This launched us into a sideways discussion about how we both LOVE new notebooks. Hence, a thank you to April for the idea for this newsletter. Those who know me KNOW that a brand-new notebook is the best stocking present ever! It's even better than the foil-wrapped chocolate coins and the orange down in the toe of the stocking!
A brand-new notebook is an absolute magic! The possibilities are endless. All those pages just waiting to be filled! And fill them I do. With odd thoughts at weird times. A name I like. A phrase that strikes me as perfect for some situation or another. Strange scenarios. Words not meant for me that I overhear. That special juxtaposition of the sky and a tree, perhaps. That word that I couldn't remember that just pops into my brain three hours (or days) later.
If I don't write these things down, they often seem to be lost forever. Writing them down means I have them and they are now a part of the magical notebook! One word becomes three which transmogrify into paragraphs! By their being IN the notebook, the words and phrases gain power. They are remembered or, at the very least, are findable again. Moreover, they spark an ember that often becomes a flame. But, don't worry, the notebook being magic never burns!
I remember waaaay back to when I was six or seven: sitting in my favorite nook on the next-to-bottom shelf of a built-in bookshelf near the woodstove in our porch room up on our mountain. I'd sit with my back against the warm brick chimney, curled up in a blanket on Christmas afternoon holding my new notebook and a refreshing sharpened brand new pencil. Just sitting there, waiting in gleeful anticipation for the first magical thought for me to write down. I was quiet, out of the way of 'Christmas dinner is almost ready' chaos, and happily occupied.
They had to be just the right words, you see. Christmas notebook words. Worthy words. I barely remember the actual words I wrote, but they had something to do with the dogs and the cats (numerous of both) patiently awaiting something to hit the floor. They all intently were staring just below where my grandmother was busy chopping something on the counter. It was almost as if their combined powers of willing that food to dro would make it happen. And then ... it did. Four dogs and three cats all pounced. Hemingway, our old, old, OLD Maine Coon cat won and retreated to my lap to enjoy her bit of carrot. Not that she liked carrots all that much, if at all, but, hey---she won! Magic!
Would I have remembered those moments if I hadn't written them down? Perhaps. Or, perhaps not. But I did. And I do. More magic!
Until now, I don't think I ever wrote further about those moments, but I remember them clearly as if they happened last year, rather than sixty-three years ago. More magic!
Merry Christmas, everyone. Happy 'Whatever it is' you celebrate! And that, too, is magic! |
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