Tools of the Trade

On a recent school visit a young boy asked me what tools I needed to write. That really made me think. The obvious ones are pen and paper, of course, and my computer but there are lots of other things I use too. Like notebooks, especially pretty, decorated ones. I have a collection of special notebooks, like these:

 

 

And I like pretty pens to write in my notebooks:

 

 Although most of the time I think the notebooks are too pretty to write in, and don't want to use up all the ink in my pretty pens so scribble notes down in a plain notebook like this with a biro.

 

Then there's my reference books like this very battered Roget's Thesaurus.

My ideas file and cuttings.

And my CDs for calm background music while I write.

How about you? What tools do you need to write?


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