The pretty note book problem

I, like many people, am a sucker for a pretty notebook. Whether that be notepads that show the animals of the London underground or a simple black felt book with some pretty stitching. I feel like I have to commit to these books when I start using them and as you know I am a procrastinator extraordinaire. This means that I have many,many books scattered half filled around my room. I can't tell you the amount of times I've ripped out pages from books to make them fresh again for a new use.

As I have said quite a few times by now I'm finally committing to things. Hey if I say it enough times it might come true! For the first time in forever I have some ideas buzzing away in my head for stories and blog posts. I can no longer waste these pretty books by leaving them sat in a drawer and I'm finally putting them to use. I find myself worrying about making mistakes in them, especially when I'm planning stories. Here are some of my brains frequent questions:-

Should I write that in the beginning or the back?
Should I keep track of characters there?
Do I just explode ideas all over the place or try and think them through?
What colour pen should I use?

Obviously these are just distractions from just cracking down and getting some ideas out there. What good is a notebook if there are no ideas in it?

I've successfully completed the task of what book for what project. Now the real challenge is filling them!

Signing off

Sophie

P.S If anyone is interested for this blog I am using an aforementioned underground animal book (you should check them out they're pretty cool!) The barking book to be precise.