The Pencil Gives You Chances — Ernest Hemingway
If you write with a pencil you get three different sights at it to see if the reader is getting what you want him to. First when you read it over; then when it ...
Author: Patrick Rhone
100 Words – Nicholas Bate
100 Words – Nicholas Bate One hundred words on why one must put mind to paper.
Check out Kubrick’s marked-up screenplay copy of The Shining / Boing Boing
Check out Kubrick’s marked-up screenplay copy of The Shining / Boing Boing When preparing the screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining, direc...
Inside J.R.R. Tolkien’s Notebooks, a Glimpse of the Master Philologist at Work – The New York Times
Inside J.R.R. Tolkien’s Notebooks, a Glimpse of the Master Philologist at Work – The New York Times As Carl F. Hostetter writes in an essay in Catherine M...
005: Austin Kleon – Pencil vs Computer • Hurry Slowly
005: Austin Kleon – Pencil vs Computer • Hurry Slowly Artist Austin Kleon on when to use analog tools vs digital tools in your creative process and why co...
Diary of a somebody: could I solve the mystery of 148 lost notebooks? | Books | The Guardian
Diary of a somebody: could I solve the mystery of 148 lost notebooks? | Books | The Guardian After biographer Alexander Masters was given a pile of discarded di...
The Most Important Work
At the end of last year, I had the pleasure of reading Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography of Leonardo da Vinci. One of the things I was most struck by ...
Why I Don’t Use Digital Productivity Tools (or How a Notebook Makes Me More Productive)
A Guest Post by Curtis McHale It seems that every day we are graced with a new digital productivity tool or an older one is talking about the next version with ...
Slice Planner
I’ve been using the Slice Planner off and on for a while but the past few weeks it’s become my daily driver. Every morning, I use it to time block m...
The importance of revisiting notebooks
The importance of revisiting notebooks — Austin Kleon Almost every writer will tell you how important it is to keep a daily diary or notebook, but very few emph...