Has anyone in the history of the universe ever filled a notebook from page 1 to page x?
I only ask this because I have a bunch of Moleskine notebooks that I started to write in, only to see the next shiny new notebook and push the old notebook to the side. I can’t be the only one who does this.
I have a problem. Help! 
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Welcome to Planet Diane. It’s good to see you have come over to the dark side
It’s full of half used or even empty notebooks. They are plotting to take over the world…
Dianea- “they are plotting to take over the world”
I hope mine don’t join forces with yours, because they might succeed!
Thats not too bad. It is better than keep those books empty!
I’m raising a hand.
Yes, I’ve been known for filling up notebooks completely, yes, between the two covers, from page zero to page last.
Behold!
I even write on the inside of the covers.
Sometimes I write on the outside as well, yes, yes.
I am like that.
Too bad, I have typed so much in the past two years, I have almost completely forgotten how to write with my hands.
To be honest, I write forwards, backwards, upside down and side-to-side in my notebooks… but I have been known to meet myself in the middle from time to time
Sorry, my friend.
I have filled over seven notebooks from cover to cover, and yes, I have written on the back cover because I can never end a story on the last line of the page…it’s too difficult to time my endings. But, I can understand you pushing away a notebook for a shiny new one…People do that with lots of other things…like cars.
dragonfly
If x = 10, then yes I have!
Oh wow. Never. In fact, I can’t even seem to keep most of a notebook dedicated to one single theme or project, making it nearly impossible to use anything in there. That’s why I went to binders with dividers for specific projects. I still have small notebooks I keep with me for jotting down random things. But no, I NEVER fill them. Weird. At least I’m not the only one!
I barely manage to get to page 2 before I give up on the notebook! I’m an avid writer, but the computer’s my medium, pure and simple. Otherwise, my stories/articles/essays circulate in my head over and over until I can reach the keyboard!
I try to curb my inner voice telling me to buy a new notebook. I have 3 that I have used for a few pages hoping to categorise my thoughts. One of it is in a mess right now.
Eeh, funnily enough, I’m coming to the end of a notebook right now. I got it from Smiggle, which is a cool Australian stationery shop. Of course, it almost being finished was the perfect excuse for me to run out and buy another one! The one that’s almost finished has got a blue robot on it, and the new one has little cars on it. So cool!!!! I use up notebooks all the time… yet I also have heaps of them where I’ve only written on a few pages! I’d love to know the secret of sticking-to-notebooks-until-the-end. Why do some compel you to write in them and others lose their magic immediately? That is a mystery of life…
Never had a Moleskin notebook. But then again I never actually filled every page of every notebook I used. I tend to do my first drafts in notebooks and then move to the computer. if I’m doing blog posts’ drafts then I tear the pages with the draft out and throw it away… So sometimes all that’s left from my notebook is the covers
With my regular notebooks, the answer is no. And I don’t fill them in in order either. I randomly open a page that day and put stuff in it. When my Nana died, I went through some of her old notebooks, calorie counts, poems, life stuff. It drove me crazy that it was totally random and out of order (just like mine are!)
When I got serious about trying to do this book writing thing, I had to go through 10 years of erratically non-sequentially written in notebooks. To find and attempt to pull together all the pieces I had written of the story over the years. I thought I would lose my mind. So now, for my stories (main ones) I have primary notebooks, and anything that relates to this story goes in it’s notebook. With this new system I do fill every page of the story notebooks. But I freak out when I fill it up and am out of its paper, so I tend to stock up on empty notebooks. I love notebooks. (My son however has pointed out to me that since my handwriting is frequently illegible (a fact, I find very stressful), that I shouldn’t bother with the notebooks, and should type in my ideas from the start. But how can I jot down notes then, while I am driving the car?)
Yep. All my journals, diaries and notebooks? Filled.
With what?
Now, I didn’t say with words.
paperback writer –
I have a bit of both…journals and morning pages filled to the end…short fiction erratically placed in unfilled notebooks. Now if I could only fill up the notebooks with fiction…
I write on all the right-hand pages first, then doodle on the left-hand pages. That being said, I do have a lot of notebooks that are around three-fourths filled. Oh, the guilt.