Austin kleon journal

First, a link to what kind of notebook, because otherwise, dozens of people will ask. Then, the weighing in: This is a silly ritual, but sometimes silly rituals are all we have. Next, the selection of a guardian spirit to look over the notebook. I picked Durër’s Saint Jerome in his Study for this notebook, which

Here’s what a year of my notebooks looks like. This year I needed them more than ever. The big ones are my diaries, the medium-sized one is my logbook, and the little ones are my pocket notebooks. (Before 100 people email me: Here’s a list of all my favorite gear.) Yes, I keep three notebooks.

Why would anyone do this.

On Julia Cameron’s famous exercise in getting out of your own way.

I posted this image on Instagram, quickly, mindlessly, simply because the stack caught my eye as I passed the kitchen table and I thought it was a pleasing image. (A commenter cleverly titled it “Notebook Turducken.”) This morning I looked and it had several thousand hearts and dozens of comments, many of them questions about my

One of the places I go when I'm uninspired

A technique to get unstuck: Start in the middle of the page...

Mary Karr once compared reading her own books to a dog sniffing old turds. “I’m repelled by them,” she said. “The degree to which I never read them is profound.” She doesn’t even keep copies. This, to me, seems like a perfectly healthy way to go about being a writer — the writing is alive

A few days ago I was reading an article about journaling as self-care, and came across several quotes by local Austin professor James Pennebaker, author of The Secret Life of Pronouns and Opening Up By Writing It Down. Pennebaker had this to say about when and how and how long to journal therapeutically: Dr. Pennebaker’s

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