⬜ Time-less Japanese notebooks
Some reflections on journaling by hand every day for 8.5 years (and counting), and on writing in general
There aren't that many things I've done that consistently for that long. It's probably tied with brushing my teeth or something else equally mundane, but unlike a hygienic chore that doesn't compound, writing has... See more
Carmenx.comthe importance of journal keeping as a powerful tool for creative expression and self-healing, and a way to help solidify thoughts in both one’s personal and literary life.
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
Stalogy notebooks (which I wrote about for the One Thing newsletter ), a Sailor fountain pen with water-resistant black ink, and a red Sakura Pigma Micron pen.
Petya K. Grady • Issue 104: The Reading Life of... Celine Nguyen
How it felt to me: that is getting closer to the truth about a notebook. I sometimes delude myself about why I keep a notebook, imagine that some thrifty virtue derives from preserving everything observed. See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through
... See moreAlthough he initially found ‘the cult of journaling’ to be ‘a bit wallowingly self-absorbed’, Burkeman tried Morning Pages, liked it, and has since filled stacks of Moleskine and Leuchtturm notebooks with an unsystematic yet productive stream of thoughts, plans, emotions and ideas.