The planner I've been decorating with vellum had one huge selling feature--the 368 blank pages in the back. As I blogged previously, I wasn't sure what to do with them, but hey, I'd figure it out.
But the one thing I told myself was never, ever put any book notes in this planner/notebook combo. Never.
Not only is it impossible to pull pages out and put them with the book they belong to, it also has a time limit because of the 2024 dating.
So what did I do?
That's right. I put book notes in there. Not just for the Paladin League, but also other ideas that came to me. I put in book title ideas and character names in there. I did writing classes and made notes in the back of the planner. I did other author marketing-type classes (like what your website needs), and put those notes in there, too.
Now here we are. Nearly at the end of 2024 and I have notes in this book that I don't want to lose.
The answer for the Paladin League notes was simple. I have notebooks for this series. I'll just move the notes over there. It's the ideas that might be nothing that I'm not sure what to do with.
This required a consultation with my friends. After much back and forth, an idea was hatched. I would move the writing story idea notes to their own notebook, and to insure it didn't get lost in my office, I would keep it on the shelf directly above my computer.
I also have a Silhouette Cameo cutting machine and I have heaps of adhesive vinyl. I will make a title for the spine of the new notebook and the front cover saying that this is the idea book. Hopefully, these two steps will keep it from getting lost.
And then I needed to move a notebook (blank) from the spot of honor over my computer. There wasn't a good place to put it, so I thought I'll just slip it in my bottom desk drawer. And I found four notebooks with writing notes in them. These are the notebooks that I used to carry in my tote bag all the time and they are also the reason I swore never to put book notes in the 2024 planner.
I didn't actually forget about their existence, but I sure hadn't thought about them in years.
I do remember going through and pulling out all the notes for books I'd finished. I keep finished books in files in my lateral filing cabinet. But as I flipped through, I found notes for books I started, but never finished. Many were for proposals to publishers that my agent pitched (and they didn't sell). Others were for ideas I'd like to write, but never got around to.
Some of these have notebooks already (the ones that went to proposal), and I'll move them over to the right place. The rest will have to be added to the ideas notebook.
How long will it take before I start to feel like a medieval scribe? I am not looking forward to this. Note to self: Do not do this again. Ever.
