The Craziest Commonplace Book Ever

H.P. Lovecraft's Illustrated Collection of Weird Fiction Ideas

I love looking at other people’s notebooks. It’s fascinating to see how other people use them and to get an insight into how people are thinking on paper. It’s especially interesting to get a peak into the minds of famous fiction authors, philosophers, and other thinkers who use/used notebooks to do their thinking and imaginative work.

But while fascinating in its own right, learning how others use notebooks has often inspired me to take up a new notebook method myself—perhaps too often, in fact. But don’t let my notebook proliferation disorder keep you from exploring new notebooks for yourself. If you have completely bonkers ideas, then keeping something like H.P. Lovecraft’s “Commonplace Book” (it’s not actually a CPB but more on that below) could be the notebook method for you!

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