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Lorna Wood's avatar

For a long time I thought I couldn’t be a writer because I didn’t have the discipline or even inclination to keep a notebook. If I had read this back then, I would have thought, “There it is. Proof that Mary Dansak is a writer and you’re not.” I still have to stifle that voice, but at a certain point I just had to move on and not worry about it. I do enjoy the detail and feeling you put into your writing, which obviously comes at least partly from recorded notes. But nowadays, I kind of think my poetry and my blog are functioning as my notebook, and that will have to do for me.

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Becki Clifton's avatar

Notebooks are LIFE! I’ve been keeping them since I was 12 years old, unfortunately most of my writing from grade school was lost to the rats in the “rat house”. But I have several notebooks I’ve moved with me through my married life. I’m trying to get brave enough to go back and re-read them & get them in some sort of order.

Happy to know I’m not the only notebook weirdo.

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