Making a Book of Shadows.

I also wonder where the more experienced people get their information. I'm so worried that the information I am receiving is capitalized (I'm in the USA) so I don't know if I can trust a more modern book. Where can I find more original texts that aren't affected by the desire for money off of beginners? I want to start creating and reading rituals and writing them down on more traditional papers with "traditional" inks... I just personally feel it will affect my sort of craft.

I use a simple lined Moleskine book. It's very simple and sleek. I prefer the lined pages to the blank ones. Of course it's personal preference. It is full of sticky notes and extra papers clipped to the pages. I love it that way. It feels so real and so me. Perhaps allow something to call to you before you begin writing in it.

I’ve been collecting spells for a while and have tried many different mediums. I currently use a binder with lots of pages so that I can add papers from different books and print-outs from the Internet because my hand cramps up after a lot of writing, and also my handwriting is pretty bad. I don’t have a glossary or index because that would be impossible with the sheer amount of random stuff I have, but I do try to put it in order of date and subject. Something that really worked for me when I started putting together my BoS is carrying around a little pad wherever I went so that if I had an idea for a good spell, I could write it down quickly and put it in my BoS when I got home. Also, because I didn’t like the way my binder looked, I made a fabric cover for it that I painted on and I attached a loop to hold a pen.