Started my new notebook, and for the first time in about two years, I'm using a book with LINES in it, which is taking some getting used to. I have to control the size of the letters I'm writing, and I have to write kind of straight... It's ridiculous.
Despite this hardship, I'm always happy to start a new book. It seems like I've suddenly got a new lease on life. An opportunity to start over and try to get past all the mistakes I've made in the BEFORE times. Maybe, while filling this notebook, I'll get my big break and finally get to work on my art and writing full time!!!
This book is a blank slate just waiting to be filled, and I'm going to do my best to make it good!
---Richard F. Yates