I want to know more about your choice of journal. The tired old adage is ‘a bad craftsman blames his tools’ which, apart from being a tad chauvinistic, is also rubbish, because it’s very important to find the ‘right’ journal for your personal needs, even though ‘right’ is extremely subjective. It took me years to find one that I really get on with. Now I have about twenty of them, just in case. Muriel Spark understood. https://www.nls.uk/discover-stories/muriel-spark/
Jez, I’m sorry this comment took me 20 years to see (just going through my junk folder where mysteriously about half substack emails end up) but: I currently use a landscape A5 hardcover journal from Flying Tiger with blank white pages. Basically because it’s cheap. I’d much rather buy something indie and beautiful but with grief and in this economy I’m just not really earning ‘disposable’ income. BUT I have to say, it’s been really interesting to work in landscape orientation, and makes me think a bit differently about things. I like how I can use the pages vertically or horizontally without having to lean on the left side to stop the right pages from peeling up, if that makes sense? Thanks for the question, and thanks for reading! Abby
Although I've become more selective in the social media and messaging I use, especially the apps installed on my phone, I have to admit they're still so integral to my everyday that the idea of not getting notifications just never even occured to me. Though without them I'm sure I'd get stuck in the "checking loop" of FOMO, too.... :s
Thank you so much for the realisation, definitely time to start finding other things to fill my time with.
That’s funny, I was talking to somebody about notifications just yesterday and now I have them off. I can’t imagine having them on. I remember when I turn them off I was getting so panicked by them. It’s made a really big difference. Hope it works for you too. :)
Oooooh I love this! So tired of being a slave to the algorithms… you’ve inspired me to pick up my sketchbook today and turn my phone notifications off! I just needed the right nudge ☺️❤️
Aw thanks Lizzie, that’s so lovely! I think it’s really hard to get off the phone… definitely a helpful question to ask what you’d do with the time if it was intentional… reading is also something to rediscover!! Enjoy drawing today :) xx
I want to know more about your choice of journal. The tired old adage is ‘a bad craftsman blames his tools’ which, apart from being a tad chauvinistic, is also rubbish, because it’s very important to find the ‘right’ journal for your personal needs, even though ‘right’ is extremely subjective. It took me years to find one that I really get on with. Now I have about twenty of them, just in case. Muriel Spark understood. https://www.nls.uk/discover-stories/muriel-spark/
Jez, I’m sorry this comment took me 20 years to see (just going through my junk folder where mysteriously about half substack emails end up) but: I currently use a landscape A5 hardcover journal from Flying Tiger with blank white pages. Basically because it’s cheap. I’d much rather buy something indie and beautiful but with grief and in this economy I’m just not really earning ‘disposable’ income. BUT I have to say, it’s been really interesting to work in landscape orientation, and makes me think a bit differently about things. I like how I can use the pages vertically or horizontally without having to lean on the left side to stop the right pages from peeling up, if that makes sense? Thanks for the question, and thanks for reading! Abby
Although I've become more selective in the social media and messaging I use, especially the apps installed on my phone, I have to admit they're still so integral to my everyday that the idea of not getting notifications just never even occured to me. Though without them I'm sure I'd get stuck in the "checking loop" of FOMO, too.... :s
Thank you so much for the realisation, definitely time to start finding other things to fill my time with.
That’s funny, I was talking to somebody about notifications just yesterday and now I have them off. I can’t imagine having them on. I remember when I turn them off I was getting so panicked by them. It’s made a really big difference. Hope it works for you too. :)
Oooooh I love this! So tired of being a slave to the algorithms… you’ve inspired me to pick up my sketchbook today and turn my phone notifications off! I just needed the right nudge ☺️❤️
Aw thanks Lizzie, that’s so lovely! I think it’s really hard to get off the phone… definitely a helpful question to ask what you’d do with the time if it was intentional… reading is also something to rediscover!! Enjoy drawing today :) xx