The Notebook
Don’t let Da Vinci intimidate you. The notebook can hold everything, even your shopping list. Your dreams, your doodles, your diary. It doesn’t have to look like perfectly calibrated depictions of metatarsals, gear ratios, or written in the Vicar of Nibbleswicke’s script. It can have flaws and it can be your source of inspiration during dry seasons. Write anything you feel like writing, no matter how trivial. It gets you in the habit of writing down your ideas.
(Source: talk with creator of Zits comic strip.)