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By Joe Byerly There are several great articles (here, here, or here) about the importance of writing for publication, but what about the importance of writing for yourself? From Marcus Aurelius to George Patton and Leonardo da Vinci to Bill Gates, these leaders and inventors kept personal notebooks or notecards where they captured quotes, maxims, […]

Notebooks! Don’t you love them? I do, but I write books for kids, so maybe I can’t help myself. I have friends who keep one notebook, so they can easily find anything all in one place. I love that idea. But it doesn’t work for me, at least not right now. I use several notebooks, each for their own purpose… The big notebook under the pile of smaller ones is actually a hardcover sketchbook. I mostly write in it, but once in a while I doodle something (you’ll discover one of those doodles…

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