Comments on: Writers on writing: an interview with Jeff Abbott http://quovadisblog.com/2009/02/10/writers-on-writing-an-interview-with-jeff-abbott/ A blog about planning, people and paper. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: worldwide http://quovadisblog.com/2009/02/10/writers-on-writing-an-interview-with-jeff-abbott/comment-page-1/#comment-4844 worldwide Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:36:44 +0000 http://quovadisblog.com/?p=985#comment-4844 Thanks for this post! I really like hearing about how you use your notebooks. I love the idea of recording your ideas in a notebook chronologically and seeing how they develop over time. I have never tried to write a book, but I would imagine that I would get bogged down with categorizing ideas, characters, scenes etc. as I tend to do with most things. I like the idea of letting things develop organically. Just today my sister and I were emailing about using paper planners and how we prefer them over electronic. She summed it up nicely with, "Nothing like seeing your handwriting and remembering what it was like to live in that moment." It's true, I jot things into my planner as the idea occurs to me, so it is captured on the page at the moment I thought it. I can imagine your notebooks have a similar way of capturing the creativity of the moment and letting you relive that mindset when you read it later. Thanks for this post! I really like hearing about how you use your notebooks. I love the idea of recording your ideas in a notebook chronologically and seeing how they develop over time. I have never tried to write a book, but I would imagine that I would get bogged down with categorizing ideas, characters, scenes etc. as I tend to do with most things. I like the idea of letting things develop organically.

Just today my sister and I were emailing about using paper planners and how we prefer them over electronic. She summed it up nicely with, “Nothing like seeing your handwriting and remembering what it was like to live in that moment.” It’s true, I jot things into my planner as the idea occurs to me, so it is captured on the page at the moment I thought it. I can imagine your notebooks have a similar way of capturing the creativity of the moment and letting you relive that mindset when you read it later.

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