Oops, The Fix

I've begun transferring my information from the 2024 planner to notebooks. That should actually be notebook, singular, because I'm starting with the Paladin League notes and skipping everything else for now.

It is as slow and as tedious as I feared.

The only good thing, and I use that term loosely, is the series notes I've done so far all apply to the current book, Wicked Ambition, and not books I've already finished.

That isn't going to last much longer. I know there are notes for Wicked Suspicion in there. I just haven't reached them yet.

I'm still berating myself for putting writing notes in this book with every page I transcribe. I know better. This isn't the first time I've done this to myself. I'm hoping it's the last.

I did make my notebook for general story notes. I cutout vinyl on my Silhouette cutter and used transfer tape to put it on the cover and spine of the book.

Front cover in gold metallic vinyl. I might have spent more time debating which color to use, but when I looked at my vinyl stash, there was a small piece of gold left. Enough for title and spine, so I was like, okay decision is made. I don't have to cut into a new vinyl sheet.

If you're a paper/notebook/stationery fiend like I am, the notebook is a B6 size from Sterling Ink, the 520-page gridded version with Tomoe River Paper. Color is Forest Green. I'm not a forest green fan in general, but this one is so dark, it looks black. (No compensation and I paid full price for the notebook. Unsolicited review--I am a serious fan of Sterling Ink's planners and notebooks.)

The spine vinyl required a smaller (and different) typeface. I nearly got it on there completely straight. So close to perfect. So close. But not quite. It's close enough, though, that I think I can live with it.

I calculated lines per page versus how many pages in the book and came up with 13 index pages. With a number that large, I decided to make Index stickers for the top of each page. They're half an inch in height, which gives me room for one grid space before I begin the actual indexing of notes.

I don't know if you can see it in the photo, but each index sticker has a cut edge around it, so I can pull it off like a real sticker. This is actually why I bought this machine--to make my own stickers.

The last issue I face is how to index these odd book ideas that come to me. I mean, how do I list them in an index in a way that makes sense to me, say five years down the road? I'm still debating that. I have more Paladin League notes to get through first, and if I still have no answers, I can move my workshop notes next and save the ideas for last.

This has become a major project. Thank goodness, I only have about 40 pages to deal with. It could have been much, much worse.