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I bought a handmade leather journal with home-made paper at the Robin Hood Festival as Sherwood Forest last summer when I visited with my family. I was a great day, nice weather, despite the hordes of people (particularly the beasts we call children) who attended. We managed to get a view of the jousting, I even got to flirt with the Sheriff of Nottingham a little. There were all these stall surrounding the Great Oak that were selling such cool stuff that i wanted to buy pretty much all of it. I fell in love with the notebook and I just had to but it. I'd been wanting one of the sort for a long time, but I always found them too expensive, but this was was only £8. Now I know that is quite a lot for a notebook, but ones like this are usually upwards of £20 so I couldn't say no.
Up until recently, I hadn't used it. It was just too perfect to be ruined by something I would later scrap, but I've finally mustered up the courage to actually put pen to paper. I've spent the last few days gathering all the bits of scrap paper that I have lying around the house, filled with hastily scribbled notes of ideas that have just come to me. I've copied them all into this little notebook so I can finally start to manage my creativity. I can start to write the many novels without the permanent presence of the initial idea. I hope that this will be the start of many great stories for me because so far i have written the plans for 7 separate books and a 4 book series. I honestly do not know where to begin.