notebooks

I was doing some cleaning and decluttering earlier today, and going through old notebooks was as amusing (and distracting) as always. My lecture notes are boring but they're mixed in with original song lyrics, story ideas, song titles for playlists, random diary entries, etc. When I was in high school and college I didn't know about fanfic but I used to make up a lot of stories for myself, some really closely based on novels I was reading or musicians I was obsessed with, and some a little more original. I did a lot more planning and world-building than actually writing out the stories – lots of lists of character names, sometimes maps, sketches, diagrams, etc. ( examples and musings on creativity )