When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual conversation. Then I noticed that people really seemed to enjoy it; the fact that I was taking notes made their remarks seem particularly insightful or valuable. Now I don't hold myself back.
I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.
I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.