You should use yours! If it makes you feel better, I'm using mine. ;^D Mine is a planner/diary so it's dated. If I don't, it'll be wasted. But that's no reason you can't or shouldn't use yours.
I have been writing in paper journals for so long, it's an enjoyable habit I'll probably never stop. It just feels good to scratch paper. And I do know what you mean about the forbidden paper, lol. I feel like that with stationery sets, but I always keep one blank piece for myself, and have a little collection of pretty paper.
Also I don't mind re-typing. I've typed excerpts from my paper journal, and coffee letters here a lot.
I just like playing with words. ;^D
But yes, it is very stream of conscious, liberating way of writing. When I feel like I have too much of myself out there, and have writer's block, I usually write in paper and private journals for a while, and it cures me.
Sometimes I forget that the paper journal is the heart of the rest of my writing. Sometimes a few good lines or an idea can turn into something else even better.
And that is Moleskine's philosophy. Celebrating the notebook as a form in itself, and as the place to catch thoughts as they happen. Thoughts and ideas that can either just be part of the notebook or develop lives of their own.
Moleskine seems to think humble scratchings should be encouraged and celebrated.
I have been writing in paper journals for so long, it's an enjoyable habit I'll probably never stop. It just feels good to scratch paper. And I do know what you mean about the forbidden paper, lol. I feel like that with stationery sets, but I always keep one blank piece for myself, and have a little collection of pretty paper.
Also I don't mind re-typing. I've typed excerpts from my paper journal, and coffee letters here a lot.
I just like playing with words. ;^D
But yes, it is very stream of conscious, liberating way of writing. When I feel like I have too much of myself out there, and have writer's block, I usually write in paper and private journals for a while, and it cures me.
Sometimes I forget that the paper journal is the heart of the rest of my writing. Sometimes a few good lines or an idea can turn into something else even better.
And that is Moleskine's philosophy. Celebrating the notebook as a form in itself, and as the place to catch thoughts as they happen. Thoughts and ideas that can either just be part of the notebook or develop lives of their own.
Moleskine seems to think humble scratchings should be encouraged and celebrated.
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