Writing Wednesday (on a Thursday… depending on where you are!)

This summer, I’m trying to hand write more. Over the past couple of years, I’ve been an uneven hand writer. I’ve kept a notebook that was to serve as a complement to my blog, but sometimes would go stretched where I wrote in it only once a week or so. This summer, I purchased a Hobonichi A5 size notebook with 6 mm lined pages and ticks every 7 mm across each line. Hobonichi notebook use the very thin Tomoe River paper. At first I was pretty skeptical about such a thin paper, but it works pretty well with my Pilot Prera fountain pen and there is some shadowing but no bleed through. As advertised, the paper is smooth and I prefer it to the ubiquitous Moleskine and Leuchtturm1917 paper. It’s an added bonus that the notebook will lie flat. I am a pretty habitual writer and I try to pen between 500 and 1000 words per day about five days a week. Not all of the words are good — in fact, most of them aren’t — but I like to think that many of them are better than no words. In the Polis…