Writer's-Reader's+Notebook

“I think it turned out pretty good – considering I started with a blank page.” Steve Martin  media type="custom" key="1188405"  Reader's Notebook You can use your Reader’s Notebook for lots of things: 
 * Gather ideas for writing
 * Record, respond, and react to nightly reading by writing or drawing
 * Hold on to memories (whether you think they’re important now or not)
 * Record thoughts, observations, and questions about the world around you
 * Question your reading, writing, or learning
 * Take out your frustrations, fears, anger,or sadness
 * Remember everything that makes you happiest
 * Think about things that matter to you
 * Keep your ideas in one place
 * Practice writing

Keeping a notebook is the single best way I know to survive as a writer. It encourages you to pay attention to your world, inside and out. It serves as a container to keep together all the seeds you gather until you’re ready to plant them. It gives you a quiet place to catch your breath and begin to write. //Ralph Fletcher, __Breathing In, Breathing Out: Keeping a Writer’s Notebook__// (1996, 1)

