When I mentioned to my wife that I needed another notebook, she pointed to a bookshelf in my office and said I had a problem. “You’ve got an entire shelf of notebooks, some with just a few pages used.

In an algorithmic world, notebooking lets us crack open the black boxes of our lives I cannot stop buying books about how to write in notebooks. It’s not that I require instructions. I’ve been doing ...

There are questions writers get asked a lot, mainly, “Where do your ideas come from?” “How do you make money?” And my personal least favorite, “Are you going to write about me?” Yet, when I think ...

John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page. By Elisabeth Egan Elisabeth Egan is an editor at the Book Review and the author of ...