Karin Slaughter - New York Magazine "The (Truly) Waterproof Notepads a Crime Writer Uses to Craft Plots in the Shower"

New York Magazine | July 31, 2020

“At the beginning of my writing career, I bought all kinds of notebooks (from Moleskines to fancy journals with handmade paper) to keep handy for jotting down ideas, but none of them ever really worked for me. I always went back to using stray pieces of paper, hotel stationery, and the back of a CVS receipts. My one issue with those? They don’t really work when wet, which would seem like a weird complaint were it not for the fact that about 70 percent of my good ideas — including several of my book titles — have come to me while in the shower.

My father always taught me to make sure I have the right tools for every job, so whenever there’s a task to do, I look for the best, most efficient way to do it. I first found AquaNotes by doing a Google search for ‘notepads that can get wet.’ I’ve also used similar notepads from a company called Rite in the Rain, but the paper felt icky and it had a metal spiral binding and I’m not getting a tetanus shot for a notebook. The AquaNotes website’s testimonials had me rooting for the product before the shipment I ordered even arrived. The one that sold me read, ‘The writing stayed intact even when I … hit it hard with the shower hose!’”

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