Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)

Writing in a notebook is about transferring things from the world to your brain, not to your notebook.

You can make your own photobooks via various online services. Build a world like Anne does — super-condensed vibes.

Circle the thing you’re working on at the moment. Google it. Look up the etymology. See if there’s some fiction about it. Go around.

Do something visual every day for 30 days.

One way of imposing a constraint is to follow a format.

Nobody reads advertising. People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad.

More tips are available from blogger Giles Turnbull: see gilest.org/weeknotes-tips

‘The secret to being interesting is being interested,’

As the Borussia Dortmund footballer Jamie Jermaine Bynoe-Gittens once said, ‘You’ve got to take stuff from other people to make the best version of yourself.’

you should collect whatever you fancy. And some things are obvious: images, quotes, facts. But there are non-obvious things that will come in handy one day. Analogies, metaphors, ideas, models, assumptions, habits, patterns, vibes, objects that express ideas, images that evoke occasions, things you don’t understand yet but that you feel will mean s