Notebooks

Dear Wal,

I'm developing a frighteningly large array of notebooks, all completely filled with random bursts of inspiration, roleplaying with Watson, stories finished and unfinished, bits of stories I scribbled because I didn't have a computer or internet available and any other random crap that comes to mine. I go everywhere with my notebook. And I mean everywhere. It comes with me in my backpack to school, with me to class and sometimes lunch, and then anywhere else I go I carry it or it stays in the car. I'm very attached to it. It gives me the means to write random things down and never lose them. There's also an element of comfort to toting around a notebook. There's nothing quite like the feel of a hefty chunk of pages that you've written by hand, all your own work. I think it's what writing on the computer lacks, even though typing is faster and easier, it doesn't have the same weight as far as finishing something goes.
I've only finished a few stories in notebooks, however. For me they're a means to work out a stubborn plot or a story that just won't flow right. If I need to then I switch to the computer or vice versa. It helps unstick the wheels sometimes. Here's a little guide to the notebooks above and the stories I've written in them:

1) My first official notebook that I ever seriously wrote anything in. It's a member of an extinct breed from Staples that I can't find anywhere. This notebook is where Jason's stories began. I was still a Batman noob at that point, so I had no clue what I was doing, and plus I was writing the stories three or four months after I came up with them. Because, in typical Sherlock fashion, I thought the idea was insane and stupid at the time and didn't write anything down. Boy was I wrong. The rest of the notebook is filled with one of me and Watson's failed roleplays. She made a side kick and inserted her into the Batman mythos-Cardinal-while Jason Todd was still Robin, and then she tried to save Jason and the two Jasons got switched-the Jason from my fanfic and the actual Jason Todd from the comics-right before the original was supposed to die. Yeah. It kinda failed.
2) BEST. NOTEBOOK. EVER. Watson gave this notebook to me as a birthday present. It was the most amazing birthday present ever. I continued Jason's adventures in this notebook, although most of them failed horribly because-once again-I didn't have a clue what I was doing or any semblance of a plan. I still didn't know my characters well enough. But this notebook-it has wonderful thick, creamy pages which suited the pencil (1.9 mm lead!!) she got for it perfectly. I also started a random sci-fi story in the middle of it for no reason. One that failed. The first of many attempted Elliot stories.
3) This started out as a notebook for taking notes at this science camp I went to, and then I realized I really wanted to write in it. So I crammed a week of notes into 4 pages and wrote in the rest. This one contained yet more Jason stories, along with an interesting one about him and Elliot in an alternate future I tried to write a story about in the leather notebook (it was awesome, but it failed). They had a reckoning. It was fascinating.
4) Another gift from Watson and an awesome notebook. She has the best taste in notebooks. This one was filled with Elliot stories, and some roleplay, and a bit of my western, and I think a bit of one Jason story. It was a very wonderful notebook, but it didn't last long. I was writing up a storm and my handwriting was huge and ridiculous at the time.

/endrant

P.S. If you look at all these notebooks in chronological order, you'll observe the slow degradation of my cursive. It's sad.