I use spiral bound notebooks for writing poetry. Not a very noble medium for what I ultimately hope will be art, but I find that the smaller format blank books are too narrow for my usual stanza width. I need room to scrawl. So I buy cheap notebooks and decorate them with collages. The one I have been using for the last few years has a collection of Impressionist art.This notebook's first poem was written on 10-1-01 and the last one is 7-18-08. I need a new one ASAP, but I am not sure how I will decorate it, or if I will try to find something sturdier and a little more stately looking. I doubt it will matter, because nothing will rehabilitate my messy handwriting.
Stately, schmately! Use what works. I never seem to get around to decorating the outsides of sketchbooks. I just started a new one, since I can't remember which one I was sketching in last. I tend to do both journaling and sketching in the same book. I like the cheap hardcover ones they have at Borders. If it's too fancy, I don't want to scrawl all over it.
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