Kit and Planning for NaNoWriMo

For those of you that don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, it stands for National Novel Writing Month and the challenge is to write a 50,000 word novel in the 30 (or 31) days of the particular month you are setting aside for the challenge. The main month for this is November but as an individual you can take any month you like and apply the same principles. For more information, or to sign up yourself just head over to NaNoWriMo.org You may have noticed that at the top of this…

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My Filofax – All Change!

I have recently been suffering from extreme shoulder and arm pain, also affecting my neck muscles at times as well. So I made the decision to try and use my mini Metropol Filofax on the go and then use my A5 zipped Holborn again at home, instead of my VERY stuffed and rather solid, brick like personal Malden! This will mean that EVERYTHING will be entered into my A5 and then every week all the weeks appointments get transferred to the weekly pages (the month on 2 pages will be…

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New Fountain Pen

Well I mentioned in my previous post that I had recently purchased a new Lamy AL-star fountain pen and I was having issues with writing so far using it. I have been looking online about how to hold a fountain pen properly in case I still haven’t mastered the whole pen holding technique (I only started holding my pen with 1 finger instead of 2 whilst I was in the later years of being at uni and it improved my handwriting and helped get rid of a lot of wrist…

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