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Monday Prompts 05

Monday Prompts 05

Does that new notebook feeling ever go away?

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Terri-Jane Dow
Sep 04, 2023
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Hello!

Delivered every Monday for paid subscribers, you can use these prompts to warm up your writing, as a journalling starter, or as something to think about throughout the week.

If you’re considering upgrading to a paid subscription, I’ve adjusted the tiers, so an annual subscription is now £2 a month, and you should be able to trial it for a week before buying (there’s also a monthly option, if you’d prefer)!

Obviously a September chat had to be about kit.

I love a new notebook, although I am a horrible scribbler and over the years of journalling and managing multiple notebooks at once, I now put everything in one notebook so it has my whole life in it, and has shopping lists and to-do lists jumbled in with all my feelings, bits of story ideas, course ideas, and “interesting things” ripped out of newspapers (yes, I’m still doing that - I refuse to believe none of you do it too). I switch ink colour between things so it doesn’t look completely unhinged (InkJoy multipacks forever), but yes, this is a glimpse into my tired, chaotic mind.

So, (a two-parter because I’m nosy), tell me, what’s your writing kit of choice?

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