Beside my computer, there’s a stack of business cards.\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn’t matter what’s on the front–on the back are various notes and thoughts jotted down whilst on the road or in a restaurant or a bookstore.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s an envelope from one of my bank accounts on which I’d tracked a few payments.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s the current manuscript-in-progress, with notes.\u00c2\u00a0 Junk mail whose envelopes have become important.<\/p>\n
I have a journal.\u00c2\u00a0 I have notepads.\u00c2\u00a0 I have dozens of places on which I’m supposed to write notes.<\/p>\n
Yet somehow, I still end up with countless scraps of paper, torn bits of napkin, and post-its all over the place.\u00c2\u00a0 One of my cigar boxes is filled with story-thoughts and\/or story-ideas on slips of paper.\u00c2\u00a0 (I don’t smoke cigars, but I like cigar boxes, and I have about a half dozen, though not all of them have yet found a use.)\u00c2\u00a0 There are even notepads which have been through the wars.\u00c2\u00a0 One has about six sheets of paper in it; the other sheets have been torn away and discarded as they reached the end of their usefulness.<\/p>\n
The strangest thing is, somewhere in this system, there’s something that actually makes sense to me.\u00c2\u00a0 I can follow it.\u00c2\u00a0 I use it.\u00c2\u00a0 Whenever I’ve tried to narrow things down to a single day planner or something of the like, it’s inevitably devolved into a collection of scraps papers and the backsides of business cards.<\/p>\n
Which, I imagine, is exactly the way it’s supposed to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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