Author: Notebook a writer's best friend

Mark Costello tools down the busy highway, his sister next to him in the car, when a thought comes to him. He grabs a pen and without looking down scribbles a few, mostly indiscernible lines, onto a nearby notebook.

"Mark, what the hell are you doing?" his sister asks, a look of horror on her face.

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