This may seem weird, but I don’t hand write any notes before I sit down to write. I am not certain if that is “normal”, but I find that taking notes, handwriting out thoughts, or using my phone to transcribe ideas, just doesn’t work for my process.
I am much more comfortable, sitting at the keyboard, and JUST WRITING. Is that weird?
I have been gifted so many journals and beautifully bound notebooks for birthdays, Christmas and “just because”, because I write.
I look at them with such appreciation, and admire the people who “think of me as a writer” and feel the need to give me these treasured books to write my thought, in, but the books stay clean, pretty, and unused in a neat pile on my bedside table. I don’t want to scribble my thoughts into them, in case I make them look messy.
I was even given a small tape recorder by a very special person once, to use to “dictate” what I would write, and honestly, I don’t know where I put it, and never did figure out what to do with it. I feel like everyone’s good intentions are going to waste, but I just cannot bring myself to “jot down” thoughts.
WHAT IS YOUR METHOD TO THIS MADNESS?
I like to stay organized.
