The Best Way to Keep a Writer’s Notebook

Why you may be doing it all wrong.

Photo: David W. Berner

I have little notebooks everywhere. In my bag, in my car, on my desks. Several are on my desks. Most of them are inside a little writing shed on my property but others are kept at my college office. I do not just keep one. And I do not consider it necessary to write in them, any of them, every day. None of them would be considered a…