Your writer's notebook can electrify your writing. But if you have not accumulated "commonplace books" over forty years, this one, from a writer with over 90 publications, may help. It offers about 5,000 entries, divided into categories valuable to writers. This offers "the best bits" of four decades of a writer's notebooks. Other sources such as the Google global zeitgeist 2013 were also used. The result is 55 categories useful to writers (the author has special skill in such analysis). It is a modern-day "cabinet of curiosities" that can add fire to any writing.This cornucopia is fresh....