Notebookage!

Oh the power of a brand new Top Flight brand 60 sheet Memo Book, 3 x 5 inch pages, top bound with a metal loop spiral, 30 point card-stock backing, 17 lines per sheet, straight from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Gets 36 mpg on the highway and can go from 0-80 in under 4 seconds. Mmmmmmmm....

I always find that I can write easier when I've owned one of these little bastards for a while. I think it's because normally, if I have ideas, I smile and think, "Wow, that would make a really good story!" And then I see roadkill/Lover'sLane/a homeless person/the moon/etc and within minutes that idea is loooonnnggg gone, never to return. Didn't even leave a note.

However, when I can get in the hang of writing stuff down in a notebook, ideas, song titles, whatever, it usually helps me later on when I sit down. Because otherwise I'm forced to come up with ideas on the spot and that just never turns out well. Many a crappy story has been typed out and deleted because of that forced process and I'd really rather not waste time with bad writing.

So, here's to my new, green notebook (and to its sister, whom I assume I will begin writing in shortly, given the size of these dinky things).