Fear is an engine of creativity, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On how dang useful fear is in the creation process. Creating, for me, is a frightful-scary game of chasing projects that scare me to take on.
Fall-ing for five inked pens (puns are cool)
I enter the week with my lesson plans already done — with last week’s currently inked. A full 20% of my anticipated writing is taken care of prior to any tweaks to last week’s rotation. So I only need enough inked pens to carry me through meetings, marking, and journaling.
Five inked pens should serve my needs well. One grey ink as my typical core. And four options to keep me excitedly writing throughout the week.
2022 state of the scholar, tray three
Taking inventory of my pen collection helps me to ensure that the pens in my case all draw me into my writing. A process that I started back in July and continued a month later.
The process involves balancing each pen atop my guiding principals. This week, I sift through the third (of four) 13-pen trays. The tray I lovingly call the “Tray of Small-Sized Big-Hitters.”
Any journaling is journaling done right, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On remembering that there is only one rule in journaling. That rule: do you. Successful writing is starting to write again.