Novel Notebook
I have a composition notebook that I have started making random notes in about my novel. Sort of a brainstorming notebook to let me work out a plan for what to do with one scene or another and where I can collect random bits of scenes that I have thought up but not yet flushed out into a full scene.
I can do my best work when I am writing longhand, so the notebook is a perfect brainstorming tool. I just start working on something that seems like it might work in the novel, then slowly it gets fleshed out into a scene that I can later type up into the computer. It was how, years ago, I wrote the first few chapters of the novel. Somewhere along the way I stopped using a notebook for sketching our the scenes into a rough draft, but I think it’s time to get back to doing the broad strokes stages of outlining in a notebook once again and see if that helps me to finish the novel.
