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What notebook or journal do you use?

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited April 2010 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
for all the writers in the group here, or I guess the artists as well, what notebook, writing pad, journal, spiral notebook, or composition notebook do you use? What brand?
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  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    I love Moleskin.

    http://www.moleskineus.com/
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    this is my latest. usually i use an A4 spirax spiral bound. i dont think this one is though.



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    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    I love Moleskin.

    http://www.moleskineus.com/


    i think id go broke using moleskins. :lol:
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    no special brand or style.
    i use paper.
    i couldn't have something nice as far as a notebook goes.
    i trash everything.
    nothing is nice once i get my hands on it.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    I use a moleskine for my personal journal, but for work related note taking and doodling I go with the old-skool Meade composition book:
    Mead-Composition-Boo.jpg
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    I use PJ ten club Poetry, Prose, Music & Art site, I haven't writen anything down for years now.


    Godfather.
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    catefrances wrote:
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    I love Moleskin.

    http://www.moleskineus.com/


    i think id go broke using moleskins. :lol:
    I have an issue of keeping everything. I like these cause I can keep them on a bookshelf and they still look nice, I also like the thickness of the paper... allows me to use liquid ink pens and not bleed through.
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    I just buy blank spiral notebooks of different sizes. I carry one around in my purse at least but they are usually nothing fancy, just something medium-sized with a cover I like. I go through so many I don't like to get hard-bound ones.

    A lot of times I just find myself grabbing whatever paper is at hand though. :)
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    justam wrote:
    ...
    A lot of times I just find myself grabbing whatever paper is at hand though. :)

    envelopes???? :mrgreen: i do that.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    catefrances wrote:
    justam wrote:
    ...
    A lot of times I just find myself grabbing whatever paper is at hand though. :)

    envelopes???? :mrgreen: i do that.

    Yes. Old mail on the desk is handy. :mrgreen:
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    justam wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    justam wrote:
    ...
    A lot of times I just find myself grabbing whatever paper is at hand though. :)

    envelopes???? :mrgreen: i do that.

    Yes. Old mail on the desk is handy. :mrgreen:

    i do carry an A5 spiralbound in my bag. actually ive misplaced one somewhere and im desparate to find it. figures thats the only book i need to find, i cant. its been to NYC and back... but now?? who knows where it is.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    catefrances wrote:
    justam wrote:
    ...
    A lot of times I just find myself grabbing whatever paper is at hand though. :)

    envelopes???? :mrgreen: i do that.


    yep...i just recycled a bunch a couple days ago...many with usually just a couple lines written or maybe a verse (not just phone numbers of whom i've no idea now. ;) ) it was kinda fun to read some of these and think... oh yeah this became part of that one :mrgreen: .... or wonder where the hell was i going with that? :think: :?
    *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
    angels share laughter
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  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    i write on boxes, walls, my hand/arm..
    when no paper is to be had a guy's gotta do something.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    john hughes' notebooks(some of)



    johnhughesnotebooks.jpg


    the brown spiral bound one, centre right, has the word detention scrawled on it. no prizes for guessing what it was he wrote in it. 8-)



    the notebook that hughes was carrying with him when he died, a red smythson panama, contained no new entry for august 6, though august 5 was filled with a detailed description of the hotel-as if setting the scene in a screenplay-and warm notes about his visit with his grandson. the famile also recovered the camera that hughes had been carrying on his last walk. it contained a few photographs hed taken that very morning: neatly composed streetscapes. "its some small comfort to us that we know from the spot where the ambulance arrived, and from where his last picture was taken, that it was a small distance-that it was sudden", james(hughes' son) said.
    more comforting still, james says, is that, "when he passed away, he was doing something he loved. he was out notetaking and observing"-even if the notes were mental and photographic rather than pen to paper. the point is: john hughes never stopped writing until his heart stopped beating.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    justam wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    justam wrote:
    ...
    A lot of times I just find myself grabbing whatever paper is at hand though. :)

    envelopes???? :mrgreen: i do that.

    Yes. Old mail on the desk is handy. :mrgreen:

    I've written many songs on napkins at the bar. they have the wet ring from my drink and everything. :P
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    i write on my sack.
    :mrgreen:
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    chadwick wrote:
    i write on my sack.
    :mrgreen:
    Ouch! So I assume you use a BALL point pen? I'm here all week, try the veal...
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    DeLukin wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    i write on my sack.
    :mrgreen:
    Ouch! So I assume you use a BALL point pen? I'm here all week, try the veal...
    that and a feather pen for dipping.
    ticklish feather.
    :mrgreen:
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    chadwick wrote:
    DeLukin wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    i write on my sack.
    :mrgreen:
    Ouch! So I assume you use a BALL point pen? I'm here all week, try the veal...
    that and a feather pen for dipping.
    ticklish feather.
    :mrgreen:

    kinky bitch. :D
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
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