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I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

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.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.

I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.

I type everything on my computer. I carry a writer's notebook everywhere, in case I am struck by an idea. I forget things unless I write them down. I'm planning to learn how to dictate into my cellphone; I think that will be very helpful, too.