I’m curious, how many of you handwrite your novels? I handwrote a half finished draft when I was in high school and enjoyed it. However, I didn’t do it again until now because I thought it’d be more efficient typing, which is true. But I realized my flow was better when I wasn’t distracted by social media or other things on my computer. How do you count your words when handwriting? This is how I determined my average word count, however, I realized it’s not fool-proof and I’m being conservative with my numbers but it’s a start for me and…
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Finally! Got some pictures of the new notebook design I had printed on little notebooks. They are about 3.5×5 inches, so perfect for a pocket notebook or purse! It’s paper is made from 100% recycled paper and is printed with soy-based ink. It has 32 blank pages for your creative use. I created the design in Illustrator and had it printed professionally. The idea was inspired by those situations where I have an idea and sometimes I would cage it up in my head later because I didn’t have a way to preserve the idea. I decided to go with…
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This review is about an Artist Loft Journal I bought from my local Michael’s and am using as a journal. Started it in Mid-January 2012 and finished in May. I saw the cover and couldn’t resist getting it with a 40% or 50% off coupon. Actually I saw it earlier but resisted buying it because I didn’t have a coupon and already have too many journals. Ha! See how that stops me! XD Right. To the review! You can’t really tell in the photos but part of the cover is metallic gold so it’s reflective and shiny! lol I’m kind…
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I’ve been using the green and black Piccadilly Wir-o notebook for awhile. I mainly bought it to record my trip to Taiwan in 2010. It worked lovely there and took quite the beating in my opinion. The photos below are current, I didn’t take any before because I hadn’t planned on reviewing the book. I picked it up from a local Half Price Book Store for about $5. I chose this specific one because I loved the design. Green is my favorite color but I loved the intrinsically designed flowers. The cover has some dents from being pressed against various…
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(Ignore the random marks on the cover, that was from ink accidentally smearing on the cover from my fingers as I was writing.) The 5×8 inch Spicebox Journal came as a 2-pack with 176 pages each book (only pictured is my green journal). I started this journal in July 2011 and finished in Mid-January 2012. Tried several types of pens and realized ballpoints wrote the best. Even gel pens worked ok but you could still feel the tooth as you wrote. I guess it depends if you like having your pen drag when you write or if you like the…
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(Note: This is an old post but still relevant. Had planned to write this in 2011 but haven’t got to it until now. Going to do some reviews of tools I use for my creativity. 🙂 Just for my personal progress and for fun. 😀 ) I wanted to start a journal this year (2011) but didn’t realize the types of journals there were or even what made up a “good” journal. I had several journals already stored at home and ready for use but I never had the nerve to use them because I didn’t know what to write…
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My current sketchbooks that I desperately want to finish but only about half way completed. I figure some of you would like an introduction to why I started this blog. If not, feel free to skip it. XD With graduation behind me I began to wonder what I should do with my life. Since I love the manga story-telling style, I decided to try to work on my own webcomic which is why I established this blog. It was mainly to help me track my progress as slow as it might be to help motivate me and for the public…
Leave a CommentIn my opinion, yes. There seems to be a slight divide of pen users who seem to prefer writing in longhand but there are others who just as prefer to type it all out on a computer. Perhaps it’s the period in their lives when they learned to write or type which makes them prefer one over the other but I see the advantages in both. In my elementary and middle school days almost everything was hand written. At the time I thought it was normal to have to write everything all out. My handwriting was legible but it got…
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So if you read my blogs you would know that I’m a notebook/sketchbook addict. I realized this probably around the middle of this year and have since been collecting them (when they are on sale or I find one I REALLY like) and here is part of my collection. These notebooks/sketchbooks are ones that are currently in use. I’m actually running out of space on my bookshelves but whenever I bring home new books I always manage to make space. 😉 Although now I have to be more cautious of what I buy and try to use the ones I…
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