Journals (paper & electronic)

Recently arriving at LitCentral’s office was a package from our friends at Field Notes. The company, based out of Chicago and Portland, produces a quality memo book that rivals such competitors as Moleskine. There is genius hidden behind the marketing of this product, as it has taken on a cult-like following in a very short amount of time.

Design
Inspired by vintage farmers’ planting books and other practical, historic, mostly-midwestern American design.

Field Notes Three-Pack ($9.95) includes the following features:

    * Three 48-page memo books.
    * Each 3-1/2″ wide by 5-1/2″ tall.
    * Rugged three-staple saddle-stitch process.
    * Perfect 3/16″ (5mm) graphed paper.

Bonus goodies are included with every order and may very.

Field Notes are a very durable notebook made for anyone who needs something handy and accessible to capture the abundant overflow of their brain droppings.  But for the purpose of Founders’ Blog we’re going to explore the benefits of Field Notes with regard to writers.

Screenwriters, Writers and Field Notes
Writers don’t just have ideas for stories, they have ideas for characters within those stories, and dialogue, and locations, and subplots, and so on… What I like about Field Notes is the 48-pages are a small but significant commitment to a particular subject or idea.  With Field Notes you’re not presented with a giant notebook that may end up collecting dust because you have no idea how to begin filling so many pages. In the past I’ve been guilty of buying expensive journals and filling them with umpteen different subjects that eventually end up lost because there’s no search button or sequential order!

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