I have a lot of mixed feelings about writing. At times I get a lot of meaning and happiness from it, and at other times I feel like an untalented failure of a writer and avoid writing altogether. The latter has been winning out for the past few years, depression being one of a few factors. We talked about this in my therapy session today and given all the tools I’ve learned to deal with feelings of failure, I think I’m ready to try writing again.
The Artist’s Way came up, a book by Julia Cameron. The idea of trying morning pages again feels like a potentially achievable goal to start with. If you’re not familiar with this concept check out the great short video(s) on her site. The last time I did morning pages regularly was 10 years ago, during the same summer in which I finished the first draft of my novel, The Last Moon Elf. I would be overjoyed to tap into that creativity again.
I absolutely love notebooks, so I decided buying a dedicated journal for this would be a good way to kick off this goal. I watched the other video on Julia’s site, about the idea of an “artist date”, where you go on an outing by yourself somewhere fun where you might find inspiration, once a week. So I brought these ideas together and decided to check out this store Paper Hammer, walkable from work.
Here’s my haul! 😊 All notebooks are lined. Couldn’t help also getting some tree-themed washi tape. Fun was had, that store is adorable.