Status Updates From Pocket Muse: Ideas and Insp...

“Treat yourself to
an expensive pen a box of colorful paper clips a fine, handmade notebook a leather bookmark
Why shouldn’t your tools be beautiful?"

This made me go Joker mode and look up the most expensive options.

Pen - 8 million
Notebook (no paper) 1,860
Paper (10) 85
Colourful paperclips (2) 1,685
Bookmark 11,875
Ink (60ml) 60
= $8,015,565

Conclusion. I'm too poor to be a writer.

I actually got up an hour early and wrote for nearly an hour before doing anything else, as per Dorothea Brande's advice, and then did an exercise from here.

Good start to the week!

Doing the making phrases out of random letters exercise. I randomly chose: BLRSUTINVEA

One example that doesn't speak to political fears at all...

Biden loses race. Senate undeclared. Trump insurrection nears violent ends. Armageddon.

How does one track the progress of reading a book with no page numbers? Guess.

This book is a little silly, or maybe I'm just not as whimsical and full of childlike wonder as I need to be to appreciate it.

Lots of fun writing prompts. Also, some great advice on handling envy, pushing through projects, etc. I like how this book covers all aspects of the writing life and not just writing itself.