Keep A Notebook

Journaling side blog. Call me Newt. 27, they/them

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Winter Solstice page

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little sherlock holmes page because I've been rotating him in my brain lately

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nearly at the end of my current notebook so I bought a couple of options for my next one - both are b6, the penco one is my favourite colour and has a more durable cover but I don't really like the grid paper, the life noble notebook has much nicer paper but less pages, is flimsy, and was more expensive so I don't really know on balance which option is best. I think I'll use the penco one first, then the life, and update in 18 months or so :p

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Found the perfect use for this little sticker guy

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how to brain dump like a pro

what you need

a messy notebook (I like the Leuchturm bullet ones)

a pen

a beverage for emotional support (or several <3)

how to get started

grab your notebook, and sit down in a quiet moment with enough time so you won't stress even more. The point of a brain dump is to unload all your thoughts, everything that is stressing you is put to paper. not aesthetically, no cutesy Pinterest vibes; we need it plain, unromanticised, and personal.

some prompts to get you going

do I have any deadlines coming up?

have I been making time for myself and my hobbies?

what projects, tasks, appointments, and/ or plans are currently stressing me out?

am I procrastinating anything?

am I properly looking after myself? (mental/physical health, skincare, hobbies, school/work, etc etc)

am I currently working through any challenges, and if yes how is that going so far?

how are my friends/relationships doing?

is there an area in my life that I should prioritise right now?

do I feel confident and comfortable at the moment?

Review and reflect

take some time and go over your writing; you can underline or highlight the points that you find most important. make this whole "brain dump" thing a routine; sometimes it takes a bit of writing until you actually get comfortable with putting your emotions onto paper (it sounds easier than it is..), but the more often you do this, the more comfortable you will get!! <3

As always, please feel free to share your own suggestions and tips in the comments! <3

love ya ･:*₊‧✩

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Archive

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Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynter’s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldier’s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)

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We see you, fictionalized version of a man who died nearly 2,000 years ago in Pompeii. And we grieve for you still.

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journaling in my favourite tree

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march n april in the hobonichi

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- j (x)

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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter, they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

- Sylvia Plath

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Journals // The Creeping Moon

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sometimes journalling involves cute stickers, sometimes beautiful collage, sometimes art, sometimes quotes from better wordsmiths than myself

and sometimes it's a page-long run-on sentence because I don't ever feel home, and I don't know if I ever will

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🐛🦋🐌

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I decided on a whim a couple of days ago that I needed to get into bookbinding - so here's my first try at a coptic bound notebook made with things I had lying around the house

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Сама не заметила, как потеряла разворот с летним плейлистом, не сфотографировала, поэтому он врывается прямо сейчас