MOLESKINE CLASSIC NOTEBOOK, SOFT COVER, POCKET (3.5" X 5.5") SQUARED/GRID, BLACK, 192 PAGES

The first money I ever made as a fiction writer came from a short story I wrote in my pocket notebook. Written in a coffee shop while seated at the bar, waiting for my boss to show so we could go shoot footage of vintage warplanes, I penned a tale that eventually won me my first Danny Lee Lawrence award—and $500. What we writers would call “a good start.”

I like the Squared/Gridded notebook, to help me sketch, or to help me organize into rows and columns, or just to help me divvy up the page. And every single day I write in one of these. I have stacks of completed notebooks in a cigar box, and I carry several of these on all my travels. I never leave home without one close by.