Show & Tell

I’m working up a storm on my hot teenage skater werewolves novel! Having a serious jones for office supplies as well as worship-worthy writers, I’ve always been interested in the tools that writers used in their work. (I remember reading Colette’s descriptions of her pens and just being so excited when I found some matching her description in Paris.) I think there’s something so personal and idiosyncratic about what writers use to make their work. Anyway, here is what I’m using for my little story:

1. Laptop
2. Muji notebooks, one for each 25% is what I’m calculating
3. A well-worn treatment with the entire plot of what I’m planning (which has already changed lots in the course of writing it so far!)
4. A playlist of songs from 1987
5. Starbucks beverage

Basically my routine is: I handwrite my story in my Muji notebook while listening to music and sipping my iced green tea, and then every week I transcribe what I wrote into a document on my laptop, using 11 pt. Palatino font. Transcribing’s such a pain! And yet there’s something about the act of writing by hand that makes it feel like writing, not work. Plus, I get to write into a beautifully plain Muji notebook with a Muji pen, because I heart Muji so much! I love Muji because it feels very utilitarian and humble, and yet there’s a strange beauty to its utter normality. I once got a Moleskine and felt too obligated to write amazing, deep things, which was just too much pressure. Muji notebooks give me a nice balance between humility (so I feel free to mess up and write something stupid) and something kind of elevated (its Muji-ness.) What do all of you use when you write? I am so curious!