I use a new Christian Lacroix notebook to write down all my ideas for each book – any old notebook just won’t do. I always think the better the notebook, the better my next book will be. They encourage me to keep up my standards.
It’s funny to read my diaries from when I was about 11. One of my New Year’s resolutions was ‘to keep up my writing and try not to be so ambitious’. If only I could go back, I would tell the 11-year-old me that I would end up becoming an author.
My stepfather – and my dad since I was two – gave me this gold-plated fountain pen six or seven years ago. I’ve always written with pens, but this one is my nicest. I like to use bottles of coloured ink, too, just for fun. When I come to the end of nine or ten pages, I change to another colour.
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