I attach my following comment to your video here because this is where my life changed. I can't recall exactly where the germ to journal started but it has only been a little over a year now and you have played the greatest part in it. You have opened your home, your life, your soul and observations in such a way that I am $1000's of dollars deep into the process of finding my way along lol! Chic sparrow, fountain pens, paper, fountain pen rolls and ink, intentions and curiosity about life have all made their mark on me. Its not only grade school children you have had a hand in guiding but this woman of 60 years. I look forwarded to your fearlessness and individuality in all your videos. Thank you is too small to encapsulate all that you have given... shall I say that your one droplet into the lake of life has had resounding ripples.
It’s very true, write as if no one is reading. I have been journaling for over forty years. I started as I have dyslexia and as a child had terrible hand writing as my thoughts raced several sentences ahead of what I was writing. It was my English teacher who loaned me his gold Sheaffer fountain pen and almost instantly my hand writing improved and after a year I went from A for content D for hand writing to A for content and A for handwriting! He gave me a journal and a bottle of ink and told me to write and I did! I wrote and still write poetry ( proud to say I think a bit of my family history is to thank for that as Robert Browning is an ancestor of mine) and fountain pens improved that. So journals there for me to write poetry and to write my thoughts. I live alone so have no one to talk to so my journal is my stalwart listener. I really enjoy your channel, thank you for sharing your experiences. All the best from a Brit who lives in Austria.
ianmedium I’m so late in seeing your message! What a wonderful experience you have had. Good for your teacher for taking the time and trying things out so that you may thrive as a student. I hope your writing continues to take you on many journeys. Be well, happy writing.
I love watching journaling videos, but they are mostly neat, tidy bullet journals, or people writing single paragraphs between collaged pages, and while they are beautiful (I have a particular admiration for aesthetics) they aren’t how I journal. I loved hearing someone speak about journaling the way I approach it myself, there a sense of kinship, I suppose. This was a wonderful, inspiring video!
What you said about your journal being your best friend, your outlet...it’s not sad. I am the same way. There are many more of us out there. You’ve many valid points and great suggestions. So glad I found you on TH-cam. Thank you.
Tip - I use clear nail polish on the ends of the bookmark to keep them from fraying and it also adds a bit a stiffness which helps when grabbing them to open the page
I have struggled with journaling so much that I have left notebooks unfinished so many times that it hurts but this video has resonated with me so much that I am once again going to try my hand at it.
love my A6 camel cover with blank pages - i change the refill once done and have been journaling for years like this. love the freedom, the peace of blank pages. like i can be what i want to be. i gravitate with u.
Ha, your intro was a riot. When I was in art school, I used to feel a lot of pressure about starting a new sketchbook. One of my teachers inadvertently solved that though when he assigned 10 pages of hands at the beginning of the semester. Since then, I’ve always started my sketchbooks with several pages of hands. It’s great, because you always have your model, and it forces you to get really good at drawing them.
If you want to feel liberated while writing teach yourself mirror writing, the art of writing in reverse. There’s something incredibly freeing about writing words you can’t even read yourself while you’re writing them, not until you hold them up to a mirror. And when you do see your reflected words they’re different from your normal penmanship which allows you to read them more objectively. And by the way, I love your channel. As a typewriter collector I had your typewriter video recommended to me and now after watching a dozen or so of your other videos I’m shopping for my first fountain pen. I want a black 1930s Schaffer OS Balance, to match my 1930s glossy black typewriters!
Have to agree with the last comment, absolutely love your dog! Exactly what my dog would be doing, not much! I know exactly what you mean, I carry my journal everywhere. Last year I got the Galen Leather Writer's Medic Bag with slots for my favorite pens and the all important journal. Even makes a little writing platform when needed. On a trip to London a few years ago, my mother and I took our sketch journals and sat in parks with them. we met more people that way, and it was absolutely incredible. Mum even had a sketching "chat" with a Chinese student who spoke no English but they sat together on a bench together in the National Gallery having a marvelous time. Ok, that was my life story... love your videos!
I think I own every type of notebook and journal there is, but for journaling, I still use Black 'Red. Preferably those made in Germany. The large casebound as a desk journal, and the medium as a carry with me journal. Good tips all. I just got rid of my smart phone. I'm pretty sure it was making me stupid. It was certainly wasting my time. Now I have a Jitterbug. Phone and text only. And I only use the text in an emergency. I'm trying to get things out of my head, not put ever more meaningless trivia into it. And, seriously, no one has nine hundred and seventy-three friends, as someone I know claims. When the importance of your writing is concerned, never assume anything you write isn't important, isn't salable. Not very long after I started calling myself a write, I sat down and wrote a letter to the editor of out local newspaper. It was in response to an article the paper published a few days earlier, and it took less than twenty minutes to write. I sent it to the editor, and he liked it enough to publish it as a guest column, rather than it the letters to the editor section. He also paid me ten dollars for it. The editor of a much larger newspaper read it, liked it, and bought reprint rights, though I don't remember what he paid. Certainly more than ten dollars, but not a great deal ore. Then a magazine editor read it, and she bought reprint rights for even more. I earned several thousand dollars from this seven hundred and fifty word piece before I actually tried to sell it anywhere. In journalism speak, seven hundred and fifty words is actually a half column. Or used to be. I don't know how it's done now. Sometimes it's the writing we create with deadly serious intention that's just a big blast of hot air, and the writing we create without even thinking about, without any intention at all that it will be worth reading, that turns out to be the diamond in a huge pile of coal colored ego.
Your statement about your journal is like your best friend really resonated with me. I am going to look at my gratitude journal the same way from now on. Thank you for sharing your very personal perspective.
First, as always this was a wonderful video. I didn’t know you teach, but am not surprised. I am in my 32 yr of teaching. Over time there have been several students who told me repeatedly that they couldn’t write something. One time in particular.. the assignment was to write a story about their holiday weekend. The student said they didn’t know how to write a story. So...I invited the student to tell their story verbally, which they did reluctantly. The story was amazing, with all sorts of details. In the end they wrote the story they had just told us onto paper. It was amazing. I think those you work with are blessed.
I found some of my old journals the other day from high school (2000) was very interesting to go back in time totally absorbed in the pages. Made me want to start to do this again ! How cute is this girl too :)
Also remember since was a 8-9 years boy how much I enjoyed going to stationery with my grandpa to buy pen paper and a wildest 5ct. Book. Addict to that in a Japanese way. Thanks for sharing. Be well.
Hi, I just discovered your channel today and you are incredibly inspiring. Your commitment to writing and how much you need it is truly inspiring. I have been a fan of fountain pens for many many years..been really enjoying your content!
Thank You for inspiring me to Journal again. I purchased my first journal when I was 14 on summer vacation in Puerto Rico visiting my Family. I spent the entire summer there and fell in love with journaling my adventures. In recent years I fell off the journaling wagon. I came across your video and it made me remember how much I loved writing. Thank You for sharing and helping inspire me to Journal again. Xo from NY.
I wonder how long it’d take you to get through a nanami seven seas writer👀 I’m trying to get out of the habit of only journaling when I’m stressed or sad. I want to decrease my screen time and get back into writing and reading again.
Pure joy listening to you talk about your journaling. I ordered an A5 cover and will head to the art store for a Leuchtturm notebook. I am a poet and writer and love the larger size. Your videos make me feel like I’m visiting a friend’s house!
Your last piece of advice is so so true! I often find it so irritating to see young people say, “I don’t have time for this or that” when in reality we have so much time but we unconscious behaviors that aren’t helpful, like grabbing our cell phones and going on social media. Before the pandemic I found myself opening my journal when waiting for others and purposefully allowing myself to have a break before or in between meetings, choosing to pick up a book when I was consumed with a piece of literature, but always making an effort for the habit I wanted to implement or invest in.
Thank you -- for reminding me of myself. I used to write all of the time, it was as natural and essential as breathing, but then I put too much pressure on myself by trying to make it my career, I got terrible tendinitis in my wrist that I struggled with for two-three years, and I got into a major writing funk. I still feel like I'm trying to work my way out of that funk, and this beautiful ramble of yours is helping me remember what it was all about, when my writing journey started, almost a decade ago. 🥰
This video speaks to my soul. I've always loved stationary, but oddly, hated journaling. It just felt like homework. But since the start of the quarantine, I have discovered stream of conscience writing and starting writing just for myself, like you mentioned. And honestly it's been a transformative journey.
I just wanted to tell that I am so happy to found your channel . I am keeping watching your videos over and over for relaxing and inspiring. You wont believe how much I watch each of your videos. Please don't ever stop and thx for your lovely videos .
I was writing and writing and writing on a long flight to Russia a few months ago. I felt the man across the aisle glancing at me from time to time. Finally, he said...you actually use a pen and paper! I never see anyone do that anymore.
I love this video. Your enthusiasm for journaling really shines through here, and easily lends itself to facilitating a renewed sense of inspiration within me for my own journaling practice.
I've always journaled, but the idea of sharing it in this way with other journal-writers is so new to me. Thank you for your earnestness and creativity. You've inspired me!
Hi! A new subscriber here. It's funny how I came across your channel because I love writing a lot when I was younger, I journaled then moved to blog at some point but stopped altogether for quite awhile. Then I rediscovered this love for writing just 2 months ago, I'm writing A LOT in these two months. I guess the algorithm worked, cause I really really enjoy your contents! I'm also very into fountain pens & inks, knitting and crocheting, and I've always wanted to camp but never done it. After watching your videos, it just inspires me to do more. Thanks for sharing your passion to the world! :D
this video was so inspiring to watch. I have been journaling on and off for so many years and always end up just falling off. I felt more drawn to it recently again but thought it could be this cycle I am so used to. watching this has been so helpful for me to start and continue. thank you for this.
When I began my journey into the creative arts I was already a good academic writer. Over 15 years I explored creative writing. Now I have evolved into a creative journalist...a communications author and wordsmith...its compkex but I write down my heart and mind then illustrate those thoughts through collage to communicate and express myself. I love your big journal...I use a spiral housed in a red leather cover that I love. I have lots of books to use but my spiral is my favorite with a dollar general roller ball gel. Its a daily joy to journal...no longer a writer only, I combine my passions for words and collage to create. Thanks for showing your journey.
I struggle to write daily, whether it be journaling or creatively. I used to, but now a day I feel I don't have the time... but you are right! Instead of writing when I have ten minutes or a lunch to spare I tend to pull out my phone. I need to make a more conscious effort. Can't wait to see more videos!
I love it, as i burn 🔥 quite a few of mine. But the cafe experience, about whats going on around. I will embellish, or intuitively create their position or state if mind etc. Creating a story. Ive gotten much healing thru Journaling 😊
Thank you for an interesting and thought-provoking video! I don't keep a journal but do a lot of writing (fiction and non-fiction). Using only fountain pens to write (like you a lot of Pelikans and Sailors), I found the Moleskine notebooks were very poor quality paper, with lots of ink "bleed through" So have been using Leuchturm 1917 notebooks, which I agree with you are simply the very best notebooks around... They have the best quality paper and design, and they are so solidly built. I have also bought Tomoe River notebooks but they are almost too high a quality paper for daily writing and carrying around... So I keep to the Leuchturms. I love the honesty with which you describe the way your journal has become your best friend. Perhaps one day you should publish selected extracts of your journal- they would probably make fascinating reading!
I dont know how many times I watched this in past few months... Somehow it makes me want to write 😁 whenever im out of motivation to write, i just watch this video 🌹🌹🌹thank you
Noticed the guitar cases.Love to hear you play. I’m passionate about guitars and fountain pens/ calligraphy,so love to find likeminded people.Have only just stumbled onto your site,subscribed already and wanna see your handwriting,which I’m sure I’ll see soon.
Love the cute playful introduction. The dog chilling out in the background. Thanks for sharing your thoughts / the way you journal. Isn't it such fun to look back on the past and recollect what you were thinking back then. 👍👍😁😁 Keep up the good work and keep on rambling. Love it❤️❤️
Even though I’ve been writing journals since 2009 I’m not that consistent with them. Sometimes I write everyday, sometimes I will write after a break of a couple of months. Your kind words have inspired me to keep writing! 💙
Yes! Something about the Leuchtturm, I always go back to it. Great video, I still struggle with journaling like no one will read it. I haven't fully let go and it makes me feel so frustrated.
Watching this video after two years, I agree with you- "write like no one's reading". I too, got hold of a very bad journal, but I tried to exercise my patience and am nearing completion. I used it for sketching and doodling. I am also using 100 gsm paper for journaling, purchased in a huge ream- the experience is really good. Also I don't need separate letter writing pad with this set up.
Loved your sharing today. It makes sense to me and I am going take your thoughts about write as if no one is watching 🤗 You have confirmed for me this is the place to be yourself and let the words flow. Also having the “right” notebook and pens does help. Of all the journals you have that one that went to the graveyard of notebooks is interesting as it shows you know what you like and it was OK to let that one go. I have gone back to partially filled and finished but if I truly don’t like the notebook I will let it go💕
I'm currently lost and don't know what to do. Sometimes I says things that i don't even understand myself. maybe starting journaling would help me clear my taughts more. I'm very stress out this past few months.. Anywho thank you very much ms. Denali as always amazing video
LittleWildBoar hey, I’m sorry to hear how you’ve been feeling lately. I think life has a way of constantly pushing us and testing us. It can be exhausting. I find a tremendous amount of comfort and security in my journal. It gives me a space to process, and sometimes it can be quite revealing. Other times, simply the act of writing is comfort enough and brings me into a peaceful state, even if I’m writing nothing in particular. You ought to give it a try, I hope you can find some peace there.
This has been fantastic, I have just started Journalling but didnt really know if things I wrote were daft, but thanks to you,I feel less silly about what I write, I couldn't sleep so have been watching in the wee small hours of 2021. I can write about this later a d will share your channel with my friend, who begins her Journal Journey today. Happy New Year from Scotland.
Thank You. This was very informative and inspiring. When I was in school my teacher made us keep a journal. She said it was private and that we should/could write anything we wanted in it. So I did exactly what I was told to do.............and then one day I get home and found out that my teacher told my parents what I wrote and I received one hell of a beaten. That ended it for me in regards to writing. ........ Also loved the dog in the back relaxing......he is living the life. LOL
Nice video with useful tips! You say that once the journal is done, you don't come back to it... but don't you ever feel tempted to retrieve something that you wrote a while ago? :-) I personally derive some enjoyment from the sense of accomplishment that comes with skimming over your pages, and thinking how much work you've done! (And how pleasant it looks!)
"You are not working on a masterpiece. You are just writing." This could be applied to so many areas of life. Too often, I focus on the expected result of whatever I'm doing instead of the experience and the process. Maybe if I can learn to just write more consistently, I can learn to just live. I've put this in my tiny little quote diary. It's 2.5 by 4 inches and unfortunately I can get these anymore.
I love your videos! So inspiring! When you mentioned getting your first fountain pen (MUJI), it immediately reminded me of Peter Draws’ video about attaching his MUJI to an auto cad to see how long and consistently it would write. You’ve gotta check it out. It’s astounding! And it was only filled 3/4 with ink!😳
Thank you so much for sharing! I have been writing on and off in a journal since I was in about 5th grade but only in the last few years have I picked it up on a continuous basis. And now I write at least a page every day. But your video is so inspiring though for me to write more! I love your videos about your journal and chic sparrows and fountain pens. I can't wait to see more!
I got hooked on fountain pens last christmas 2018 and found myself writing on paper again. Am still building up my hoard of inks, pen and papers. So I appreciate YT channels like yours that narrow down the choices for me coz it can get so overwhelming for a newbie :) I really love your videos and your voice. Its very calming and soothing 😍 And you’re right, using pen and paper slows down time. Its rather refreshing to be desynced from the frenetic pace of the digital world and wade in the wonder of the present moment.
Discovered your channel after watching your video on the TWSBI mini 😍 I absolutely love how many journals you’ve got! I actually got an idea recently of writing an entire novel by hand 😆 definitely gonna do that at some point. I’ve fallen in love with writing all over again since using fountain pens :)
Hello and thank you so much! I think writing a novel by hand is a brilliant idea! Something so connective about writing by hand (or typewriter) than on a computer. So great when that love of writing gets sparked again. Have fun! Happy writing!
I know this is older video but thank you for this. I have been and out of journaling all my life. Doodles and wrote nonsense and always thought it needed to be meaningful if it was meant to be a journal. I write nonsense all the time, I make lists and just like to lists things. Then I may write about my day or something that is on my mind. It is just good to know I am not the only one who writes non meaningful things sometimes as well. 🤣
Thank you for posting all of your journal videos. During the initial stages of the Pandemic, I found them a great source of interest, comfort, perhaps meditative, and now... unfortunately...addiction. I currently have different journals/traveler's notebooks for different projects, and I can't help but think that there must be a perfect way to organize each one for different types of tasks...a challenging & fun endeavour...with my TWSBI Go pen. I'm waiting for delivery of a Leuchtturm 1917 "5 year memory journal" which you may find interesting. Thank you again.
"I will be patient" Then *only blank pages* So awesome 😄 I must admit, most of my notebook have at least some blank pages in the back. Because I so badly want to move into the next one. Such an inspiring video, thank you ♥️
I always watch your videos but when I saw the thumbnail of this one with those big stacks of journals, I squealed out loud making my dog jump up from a deep sleep, oops! lol Thanks for sharing, and Murphy says "next time he would appreciate me not interrupting his beauty sleep!" 😂 Btw, your pup is gorgeous, and from the looks of it would get along with Murphy quite well. 😂
Fig is a very understanding grey. My grey Bell would have gotten up and laid back down facing away from me to show her displeasure at my talking that long near her couch.
It's a really helpful video!!! Before watching it a thought that I never had time to write, but now I use my time better, I don't use my phone but I take my notebook and I write. I write about everything that comes to my mind, this makes my feel better with myself.
Awesome tips for writing!.....write as no ones watching, use ur freetime writing rather than wasting it on Facebook....love ur channel, ur music....what kinda music are you into in general? U have a fan!..subscribed:)
I can relate to everything you said. The only difference is I developed a love of fountain pens before I started journaling. We were required to learn cursive writing in third grade using a fountain pen. I started journaling when I was in high school. I can remember when personal home computers came out the show Dougie Howser portrayed Dougie as journaling on his computer at the end of each show. Having the love of tech that I do and did at the time I thought, “That would be cool to journal on my computer.” I wrote one entry and said, no that isn’t going to work for me. I still journal on paper with fountain pens. There’s a certain romance to writing on fine paper with a fountain pen. I happen to like the Stalogy notebooks right now, but I have to be careful not to go to stationery stores or online too much, because I can’t resist the temptation. Oh, by the way, I have a few vintage pens. The only thing is they were new when I bought them! 😂 Great video. Thanks!
I love dis bound journals because it removes my anxiety around “messing up” a page. I got me a fancy disc-punch, and, honestly, got a bit carried away. “I can make ANYTHING into a journal!!1”
1. I think you are so cool. And 2. now that I see your dog and know that you are a teacher, it's hard for me to see how you could become cooler. Thanks.
The Federal Supply Service journal was what they issued us in the Army. I believe there was a time when they were distributed across the Federal Government. I recently purchased one off Amazon.
This is a great video in many ways. Thanks for posting. I've always loved paper and pencils, and used to burn through sketch books. But I would see notebooks and journals, and buy them for their beauty. Now I want to find them and start writing in them again, like in the old days. I've been writing to try out ink and test out pens, and want to stretch out and get back to putting thoughts down.
Hi! I just wanted to say, thank you for doing this video! So so inspiring! This past year I have gotten into A LOT of writing and fountain pens... and I've been writing and writing and writing... and have been kind of feeling guilty about the amount of time I spend just writing. Feeling like it's not productive and that I "ought to be doing other things"... Thank you for all the things you said, justifying that ANY writing is a good thing to be doing! It's not a big waste of time to fill up notebooks and journals with my thoughts, feelings, opinions and words... You're so sweet and beautiful! I want to meet a girl just like you in real life :) hope you are doing well! - Mike
Have you tried a Nanami Paper Seven Seas writer (comes dot grid, lined or blank), or a Hippo Noto - both have over 400 pages of Tomoe River paper. Nanami also provides 1 sheet of blotter paper. I think GLP Creations also uses Tomoe River paper.. more pages for your thickness.
just trying these two myself..one is 52 one is 68 gsm...so heavier weight in the Hippo...though I HATE the pink on the inside... and the pink elastic..thinking of gesso...white acrylic paint and cutting off the pink elastic
I attach my following comment to your video here because this is where my life changed. I can't recall exactly where the germ to journal started but it has only been a little over a year now and you have played the greatest part in it. You have opened your home, your life, your soul and observations in such a way that I am $1000's of dollars deep into the process of finding my way along lol! Chic sparrow, fountain pens, paper, fountain pen rolls and ink, intentions and curiosity about life have all made their mark on me. Its not only grade school children you have had a hand in guiding but this woman of 60 years. I look forwarded to your fearlessness and individuality in all your videos. Thank you is too small to encapsulate all that you have given... shall I say that your one droplet into the lake of life has had resounding ripples.
It’s very true, write as if no one is reading. I have been journaling for over forty years. I started as I have dyslexia and as a child had terrible hand writing as my thoughts raced several sentences ahead of what I was writing. It was my English teacher who loaned me his gold Sheaffer fountain pen and almost instantly my hand writing improved and after a year I went from A for content D for hand writing to A for content and A for handwriting! He gave me a journal and a bottle of ink and told me to write and I did!
I wrote and still write poetry ( proud to say I think a bit of my family history is to thank for that as Robert Browning is an ancestor of mine) and fountain pens improved that. So journals there for me to write poetry and to write my thoughts.
I live alone so have no one to talk to so my journal is my stalwart listener.
I really enjoy your channel, thank you for sharing your experiences. All the best from a Brit who lives in Austria.
ianmedium I’m so late in seeing your message! What a wonderful experience you have had. Good for your teacher for taking the time and trying things out so that you may thrive as a student. I hope your writing continues to take you on many journeys. Be well, happy writing.
I love watching journaling videos, but they are mostly neat, tidy bullet journals, or people writing single paragraphs between collaged pages, and while they are beautiful (I have a particular admiration for aesthetics) they aren’t how I journal. I loved hearing someone speak about journaling the way I approach it myself, there a sense of kinship, I suppose. This was a wonderful, inspiring video!
I LOVED your passed out dog behind you. Also this is so relatable journaling wise. I love your wool folder idea!
Tiffany Liu thank you!!! Only now seeing this comment... a year later, haha! Sorry!
What you said about your journal being your best friend, your outlet...it’s not sad. I am the same way. There are many more of us out there. You’ve many valid points and great suggestions. So glad I found you on TH-cam. Thank you.
I love your expression - write like no one is reading! Also love the expression on your dogs face! I definately don't write as often as I'd like too.
Tip - I use clear nail polish on the ends of the bookmark to keep them from fraying and it also adds a bit a stiffness which helps when grabbing them to open the page
Ah! The old days when a cold was just a cold! Good times.
I have struggled with journaling so much that I have left notebooks unfinished so many times that it hurts but this video has resonated with me so much that I am once again going to try my hand at it.
Mod Plans I’m so glad to hear it! In a year late, only now am seeing your comment. I hope it worked out for you. :)
love my A6 camel cover with blank pages - i change the refill once done and have been journaling for years like this. love the freedom, the peace of blank pages. like i can be what i want to be. i gravitate with u.
Oh my gosh, I CAN'T WAIT to watch this when I have a break during work tomorrow!
I miss your videos Tina! Hugs from Italy!
Ha, your intro was a riot.
When I was in art school, I used to feel a lot of pressure about starting a new sketchbook. One of my teachers inadvertently solved that though when he assigned 10 pages of hands at the beginning of the semester. Since then, I’ve always started my sketchbooks with several pages of hands. It’s great, because you always have your model, and it forces you to get really good at drawing them.
If you want to feel liberated while writing teach yourself mirror writing, the art of writing in reverse. There’s something incredibly freeing about writing words you can’t even read yourself while you’re writing them, not until you hold them up to a mirror. And when you do see your reflected words they’re different from your normal penmanship which allows you to read them more objectively.
And by the way, I love your channel. As a typewriter collector I had your typewriter video recommended to me and now after watching a dozen or so of your other videos I’m shopping for my first fountain pen. I want a black 1930s Schaffer OS Balance, to match my 1930s glossy black typewriters!
Have to agree with the last comment, absolutely love your dog! Exactly what my dog would be doing, not much! I know exactly what you mean, I carry my journal everywhere. Last year I got the Galen Leather Writer's Medic Bag with slots for my favorite pens and the all important journal. Even makes a little writing platform when needed. On a trip to London a few years ago, my mother and I took our sketch journals and sat in parks with them. we met more people that way, and it was absolutely incredible. Mum even had a sketching "chat" with a Chinese student who spoke no English but they sat together on a bench together in the National Gallery having a marvelous time. Ok, that was my life story... love your videos!
I think I own every type of notebook and journal there is, but for journaling, I still use Black 'Red. Preferably those made in Germany. The large casebound as a desk journal, and the medium as a carry with me journal.
Good tips all. I just got rid of my smart phone. I'm pretty sure it was making me stupid. It was certainly wasting my time. Now I have a Jitterbug. Phone and text only. And I only use the text in an emergency. I'm trying to get things out of my head, not put ever more meaningless trivia into it. And, seriously, no one has nine hundred and seventy-three friends, as someone I know claims.
When the importance of your writing is concerned, never assume anything you write isn't important, isn't salable. Not very long after I started calling myself a write, I sat down and wrote a letter to the editor of out local newspaper. It was in response to an article the paper published a few days earlier, and it took less than twenty minutes to write.
I sent it to the editor, and he liked it enough to publish it as a guest column, rather than it the letters to the editor section. He also paid me ten dollars for it. The editor of a much larger newspaper read it, liked it, and bought reprint rights, though I don't remember what he paid. Certainly more than ten dollars, but not a great deal ore. Then a magazine editor read it, and she bought reprint rights for even more.
I earned several thousand dollars from this seven hundred and fifty word piece before I actually tried to sell it anywhere. In journalism speak, seven hundred and fifty words is actually a half column. Or used to be. I don't know how it's done now.
Sometimes it's the writing we create with deadly serious intention that's just a big blast of hot air, and the writing we create without even thinking about, without any intention at all that it will be worth reading, that turns out to be the diamond in a huge pile of coal colored ego.
Your pup is so relaxed and relaxing to see. :) Thank you for your video!
Thank you and you're welcome! :D
Your statement about your journal is like your best friend really resonated with me. I am going to look at my gratitude journal the same way from now on. Thank you for sharing your very personal perspective.
First, as always this was a wonderful video. I didn’t know you teach, but am not surprised. I am in my 32 yr of teaching. Over time there have been several students who told me repeatedly that they couldn’t write something. One time in particular.. the assignment was to write a story about their holiday weekend. The student said they didn’t know how to write a story. So...I invited the student to tell their story verbally, which they did reluctantly. The story was amazing, with all sorts of details. In the end they wrote the story they had just told us onto paper. It was amazing. I think those you work with are blessed.
I found some of my old journals the other day from high school (2000) was very interesting to go back in time totally absorbed in the pages. Made me want to start to do this again ! How cute is this girl too :)
Also remember since was a 8-9 years boy how much I enjoyed going to stationery with my grandpa to buy pen paper and a wildest 5ct. Book. Addict to that in a Japanese way. Thanks for sharing. Be well.
Hi, I just discovered your channel today and you are incredibly inspiring. Your commitment to writing and how much you need it is truly inspiring. I have been a fan of fountain pens for many many years..been really enjoying your content!
Hello and welcome! Thank you so much! May you continue to be inspired. Happy writing, and happy new year. :)
My darling Howard Stern loves you (I know you know this!) You are so soothing! You inspire me to start journaling ❤️
Thank You for inspiring me to Journal again. I purchased my first journal when I was 14 on summer vacation in Puerto Rico visiting my Family. I spent the entire summer there and fell in love with journaling my adventures. In recent years I fell off the journaling wagon. I came across your video and it made me remember how much I loved writing. Thank You for sharing and helping inspire me to Journal again. Xo from NY.
I wonder how long it’d take you to get through a nanami seven seas writer👀
I’m trying to get out of the habit of only journaling when I’m stressed or sad. I want to decrease my screen time and get back into writing and reading again.
Pure joy listening to you talk about your journaling. I ordered an A5 cover and will head to the art store for a
Leuchtturm notebook. I am a poet and writer and love the larger size. Your videos make me feel like I’m visiting a friend’s house!
Your last piece of advice is so so true! I often find it so irritating to see young people say, “I don’t have time for this or that” when in reality we have so much time but we unconscious behaviors that aren’t helpful, like grabbing our cell phones and going on social media. Before the pandemic I found myself opening my journal when waiting for others and purposefully allowing myself to have a break before or in between meetings, choosing to pick up a book when I was consumed with a piece of literature, but always making an effort for the habit I wanted to implement or invest in.
Thank you -- for reminding me of myself. I used to write all of the time, it was as natural and essential as breathing, but then I put too much pressure on myself by trying to make it my career, I got terrible tendinitis in my wrist that I struggled with for two-three years, and I got into a major writing funk. I still feel like I'm trying to work my way out of that funk, and this beautiful ramble of yours is helping me remember what it was all about, when my writing journey started, almost a decade ago. 🥰
This video speaks to my soul. I've always loved stationary, but oddly, hated journaling. It just felt like homework. But since the start of the quarantine, I have discovered stream of conscience writing and starting writing just for myself, like you mentioned. And honestly it's been a transformative journey.
I just wanted to tell that I am so happy to found your channel . I am keeping watching your videos over and over for relaxing and inspiring. You wont believe how much I watch each of your videos.
Please don't ever stop and thx for your lovely videos .
I was writing and writing and writing on a long flight to Russia a few months ago. I felt the man across the aisle glancing at me from time to time. Finally, he said...you actually use a pen and paper! I never see anyone do that anymore.
Jill Cantor wow, that’s amazing. Wonderful to have shown him - people still do. :)
i always come back to this video when i need the motivation to write💗
Same here, haha ; p
It's wonderful to find another person that loves to write just because ☺️
Hello to you! Writing for the sake of writing, feels so good. We’re lucky to have that in our lives. :)
@@adventuredenali you are so right there. You write, love animals and dolls and even play the ukulele beautifully, amazing ❤️
I love this video. Your enthusiasm for journaling really shines through here, and easily lends itself to facilitating a renewed sense of inspiration within me for my own journaling practice.
Okay, that was amazing. I am totally inspired to write. So funny to hear Howard talk, I totally see how addictive this channel will be.
Your story of your journaling habits is very close to mine. The brands I gravitated to are not always the same, but the evolution certainly was!
I've always journaled, but the idea of sharing it in this way with other journal-writers is so new to me. Thank you for your earnestness and creativity. You've inspired me!
Hi! A new subscriber here. It's funny how I came across your channel because I love writing a lot when I was younger, I journaled then moved to blog at some point but stopped altogether for quite awhile. Then I rediscovered this love for writing just 2 months ago, I'm writing A LOT in these two months.
I guess the algorithm worked, cause I really really enjoy your contents! I'm also very into fountain pens & inks, knitting and crocheting, and I've always wanted to camp but never done it. After watching your videos, it just inspires me to do more. Thanks for sharing your passion to the world! :D
this video was so inspiring to watch. I have been journaling on and off for so many years and always end up just falling off. I felt more drawn to it recently again but thought it could be this cycle I am so used to. watching this has been so helpful for me to start and continue. thank you for this.
When I began my journey into the creative arts I was already a good academic writer. Over 15 years I explored creative writing. Now I have evolved into a creative journalist...a communications author and wordsmith...its compkex but I write down my heart and mind then illustrate those thoughts through collage to communicate and express myself. I love your big journal...I use a spiral housed in a red leather cover that I love. I have lots of books to use but my spiral is my favorite with a dollar general roller ball gel. Its a daily joy to journal...no longer a writer only, I combine my passions for words and collage to create. Thanks for showing your journey.
I struggle to write daily, whether it be journaling or creatively. I used to, but now a day I feel I don't have the time... but you are right! Instead of writing when I have ten minutes or a lunch to spare I tend to pull out my phone. I need to make a more conscious effort. Can't wait to see more videos!
I can so relate! For all the times I grab my phone my journal would be a much better choice.
I love it, as i burn 🔥 quite a few of mine. But the cafe experience, about whats going on around. I will embellish, or intuitively create their position or state if mind etc. Creating a story. Ive gotten much healing thru Journaling 😊
Federal Supply Service is standard notebooks for the military. I had so many of them and still do from my time in the Army.
Thank you for an interesting and thought-provoking video!
I don't keep a journal but do a lot of writing (fiction and non-fiction). Using only fountain pens to write (like you a lot of Pelikans and Sailors), I found the Moleskine notebooks were very poor quality paper, with lots of ink "bleed through" So have been using Leuchturm 1917 notebooks, which I agree with you are simply the very best notebooks around... They have the best quality paper and design, and they are so solidly built. I have also bought Tomoe River notebooks but they are almost too high a quality paper for daily writing and carrying around... So I keep to the Leuchturms.
I love the honesty with which you describe the way your journal has become your best friend. Perhaps one day you should publish selected extracts of your journal- they would probably make fascinating reading!
Oh my! You articulated my feelings about journaling so beautifully❤️ a great video, thank you🙏
This is still one of my favourite videos of yours. It's so inspiring ❤️
Thank you. I will start one, just you said for the sake of writing and using my fountain pen apart from quick work notes:)
I dont know how many times I watched this in past few months... Somehow it makes me want to write 😁 whenever im out of motivation to write, i just watch this video 🌹🌹🌹thank you
I love the sincerity 😌
Haha I realized 19 min that your dog was asleep in the background. Thanks for the journal writing tips! “Write like no one’s reading” love it
Noticed the guitar cases.Love to hear you play. I’m passionate about guitars and fountain pens/ calligraphy,so love to find likeminded people.Have only just stumbled onto your site,subscribed already and wanna see your handwriting,which I’m sure I’ll see soon.
Love the cute playful introduction. The dog chilling out in the background. Thanks for sharing your thoughts / the way you journal.
Isn't it such fun to look back on the past and recollect what you were thinking back then. 👍👍😁😁
Keep up the good work and keep on rambling. Love it❤️❤️
Even though I’ve been writing journals since 2009 I’m not that consistent with them. Sometimes I write everyday, sometimes I will write after a break of a couple of months. Your kind words have inspired me to keep writing! 💙
Javi H hurray! That is wonderful! Happy writing and enjoy.
Yes! Something about the Leuchtturm, I always go back to it. Great video, I still struggle with journaling like no one will read it. I haven't fully let go and it makes me feel so frustrated.
Alisha oh man, those Leuchtturms! Best of luck to you, I hope you’re able to find a happy balance.
Watching this video after two years, I agree with you- "write like no one's reading". I too, got hold of a very bad journal, but I tried to exercise my patience and am nearing completion. I used it for sketching and doodling. I am also using 100 gsm paper for journaling, purchased in a huge ream- the experience is really good. Also I don't need separate letter writing pad with this set up.
Loved your sharing today. It makes sense to me and I am going take your thoughts about write as if no one is watching 🤗 You have confirmed for me this is the place to be yourself and let the words flow. Also having the “right” notebook and pens does help. Of all the journals you have that one that went to the graveyard of notebooks is interesting as it shows you know what you like and it was OK to let that one go. I have gone back to partially filled and finished but if I truly don’t like the notebook I will let it go💕
I'm currently lost and don't know what to do. Sometimes I says things that i don't even understand myself.
maybe starting journaling would help me clear my taughts more. I'm very stress out this past few months.. Anywho thank you very much ms. Denali as always amazing video
LittleWildBoar hey, I’m sorry to hear how you’ve been feeling lately. I think life has a way of constantly pushing us and testing us. It can be exhausting. I find a tremendous amount of comfort and security in my journal. It gives me a space to process, and sometimes it can be quite revealing. Other times, simply the act of writing is comfort enough and brings me into a peaceful state, even if I’m writing nothing in particular. You ought to give it a try, I hope you can find some peace there.
This has been fantastic, I have just started Journalling but didnt really know if things I wrote were daft, but thanks to you,I feel less silly about what I write, I couldn't sleep so have been watching in the wee small hours of 2021. I can write about this later a d will share your channel with my friend, who begins her Journal Journey today. Happy New Year from Scotland.
Happy new year! I hope restful sleep finds you soon. I’m glad you feel less silly about writing!
...andere suchen Gold und Silber aber du hast einen wirklichen Schatz---deine Bücher die du selbst gestaltet hast...Viele Grüsse aus Deutschland!!!
Thank You. This was very informative and inspiring. When I was in school my teacher made us keep a journal. She said it was private and that we should/could write anything we wanted in it. So I did exactly what I was told to do.............and then one day I get home and found out that my teacher told my parents what I wrote and I received one hell of a beaten. That ended it for me in regards to writing. ........ Also loved the dog in the back relaxing......he is living the life. LOL
That is a shame...please try again to write...your parents are not watching anymore...best wishes
Nice video with useful tips! You say that once the journal is done, you don't come back to it... but don't you ever feel tempted to retrieve something that you wrote a while ago? :-) I personally derive some enjoyment from the sense of accomplishment that comes with skimming over your pages, and thinking how much work you've done! (And how pleasant it looks!)
"You are not working on a masterpiece. You are just writing." This could be applied to so many areas of life. Too often, I focus on the expected result of whatever I'm doing instead of the experience and the process. Maybe if I can learn to just write more consistently, I can learn to just live.
I've put this in my tiny little quote diary. It's 2.5 by 4 inches and unfortunately I can get these anymore.
I love your videos! So inspiring! When you mentioned getting your first fountain pen (MUJI), it immediately reminded me of Peter Draws’ video about attaching his MUJI to an auto cad to see how long and consistently it would write. You’ve gotta check it out. It’s astounding! And it was only filled 3/4 with ink!😳
Yes indeed! I just watched that one yesterday!
Thank you so much for sharing! I have been writing on and off in a journal since I was in about 5th grade but only in the last few years have I picked it up on a continuous basis. And now I write at least a page every day. But your video is so inspiring though for me to write more! I love your videos about your journal and chic sparrows and fountain pens. I can't wait to see more!
I got hooked on fountain pens last christmas 2018 and found myself writing on paper again. Am still building up my hoard of inks, pen and papers. So I appreciate YT channels like yours that narrow down the choices for me coz it can get so overwhelming for a newbie :) I really love your videos and your voice. Its very calming and soothing 😍 And you’re right, using pen and paper slows down time. Its rather refreshing to be desynced from the frenetic pace of the digital world and wade in the wonder of the present moment.
The movie star behind you... Adorable right? Love your videos loved liked and subscribed ❤️ love your energy xx
Deborah Meyers haha! He is quite adorable. Thank you, and welcome!
How beautiful my dear >>>> Thank you
What is the name of your favorite journal? I am watching you because Howard Stern talks about you! I love your video!
Discovered your channel after watching your video on the TWSBI mini 😍 I absolutely love how many journals you’ve got! I actually got an idea recently of writing an entire novel by hand 😆 definitely gonna do that at some point. I’ve fallen in love with writing all over again since using fountain pens :)
Hello and thank you so much!
I think writing a novel by hand is a brilliant idea! Something so connective about writing by hand (or typewriter) than on a computer. So great when that love of writing gets sparked again. Have fun! Happy writing!
I know this is older video but thank you for this. I have been and out of journaling all my life. Doodles and wrote nonsense and always thought it needed to be meaningful if it was meant to be a journal. I write nonsense all the time, I make lists and just like to lists things. Then I may write about my day or something that is on my mind. It is just good to know I am not the only one who writes non meaningful things sometimes as well. 🤣
Wow! I just noticed the dog on couch 👍👍
I love how real you are!! So glad I bumped into your channel! I am a new subscriber...
Shelly Clark thank you so much, and welcome! :D
Awesome video. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you for posting all of your journal videos. During the initial stages of the Pandemic, I found them a great source of interest, comfort, perhaps meditative, and now... unfortunately...addiction. I currently have different journals/traveler's notebooks for different projects, and I can't help but think that there must be a perfect way to organize each one for different types of tasks...a challenging & fun endeavour...with my TWSBI Go pen. I'm waiting for delivery of a Leuchtturm 1917 "5 year memory journal" which you may find interesting. Thank you again.
I am so thrilled to have stumbled here!! I adore your channel and your vibe!! I can’t wait to watch the other videos you have.
Heather Mattern welcome! I’m thrilled to have found your videos too!
"I will be patient"
Then *only blank pages*
So awesome 😄
I must admit, most of my notebook have at least some blank pages in the back. Because I so badly want to move into the next one.
Such an inspiring video, thank you ♥️
I always watch your videos but when I saw the thumbnail of this one with those big stacks of journals, I squealed out loud making my dog jump up from a deep sleep, oops! lol Thanks for sharing, and Murphy says "next time he would appreciate me not interrupting his beauty sleep!" 😂 Btw, your pup is gorgeous, and from the looks of it would get along with Murphy quite well. 😂
K ahahaha that’s so funny! Sorry Murphy for creating alarm! And thank you! Fig says hello to Murphy!
Fig is a very understanding grey. My grey Bell would have gotten up and laid back down facing away from me to show her displeasure at my talking that long near her couch.
Great advise on taking your journal out with you and writing in those small moments of free time..... and leave that damn cell phone alone! Thanks.
Your passion is inspiring ❤
It's a really helpful video!!! Before watching it a thought that I never had time to write, but now I use my time better, I don't use my phone but I take my notebook and I write. I write about everything that comes to my mind, this makes my feel better with myself.
Wow ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Awesome tips for writing!.....write as no ones watching, use ur freetime writing rather than wasting it on Facebook....love ur channel, ur music....what kinda music are you into in general? U have a fan!..subscribed:)
I can relate to everything you said. The only difference is I developed a love of fountain pens before I started journaling. We were required to learn cursive writing in third grade using a fountain pen. I started journaling when I was in high school. I can remember when personal home computers came out the show Dougie Howser portrayed Dougie as journaling on his computer at the end of each show. Having the love of tech that I do and did at the time I thought, “That would be cool to journal on my computer.” I wrote one entry and said, no that isn’t going to work for me. I still journal on paper with fountain pens. There’s a certain romance to writing on fine paper with a fountain pen. I happen to like the Stalogy notebooks right now, but I have to be careful not to go to stationery stores or online too much, because I can’t resist the temptation. Oh, by the way, I have a few vintage pens. The only thing is they were new when I bought them! 😂 Great video. Thanks!
This is my favorite video of yours! I have watched it more than once :-)
Teresa aww that’s so wonderful! Thank you! :)
I love dis bound journals because it removes my anxiety around “messing up” a page. I got me a fancy disc-punch, and, honestly, got a bit carried away.
“I can make ANYTHING into a journal!!1”
1. I think you are so cool. And 2. now that I see your dog and know that you are a teacher, it's hard for me to see how you could become cooler. Thanks.
I agree with all those tips! They are actually quite wonderful! Loved that peaceful sleepy doggo! And I totally get that relationship with a journal!
The Federal Supply Service journal was what they issued us in the Army. I believe there was a time when they were distributed across the Federal Government. I recently purchased one off Amazon.
This is a great video in many ways. Thanks for posting. I've always loved paper and pencils, and used to burn through sketch books. But I would see notebooks and journals, and buy them for their beauty. Now I want to find them and start writing in them again, like in the old days. I've been writing to try out ink and test out pens, and want to stretch out and get back to putting thoughts down.
Hi! I just wanted to say, thank you for doing this video! So so inspiring! This past year I have gotten into A LOT of writing and fountain pens... and I've been writing and writing and writing... and have been kind of feeling guilty about the amount of time I spend just writing. Feeling like it's not productive and that I "ought to be doing other things"... Thank you for all the things you said, justifying that ANY writing is a good thing to be doing! It's not a big waste of time to fill up notebooks and journals with my thoughts, feelings, opinions and words... You're so sweet and beautiful! I want to meet a girl just like you in real life :) hope you are doing well! - Mike
Write like no one's reading. Great advice! Tx! 😁
Love!! Your pup was out like a light! lol!
Louis Gonzalez haha he really was!
Just found ur channel and I love your stuff! I can see ur passion and that hypes me up! Love it! New fan!
jorge vazquez yay! Welcome and thank you!
I love your journaling videos. Have you ever considered doing a tutorial for your felt folders that you put into your A5? I just love them.
Earth and Spirit thank you! Perhaps I will. Next time I make a folder I’ll try to remember to pull out the camera. :)
AdventureDenali i too would enjoy a felt folder tutorial!
I do that to my cat...but I say... PEEK when I am doing it! LOL
Have you tried a Nanami Paper Seven Seas writer (comes dot grid, lined or blank), or a Hippo Noto - both have over 400 pages of Tomoe River paper. Nanami also provides 1 sheet of blotter paper. I think GLP Creations also uses Tomoe River paper.. more pages for your thickness.
just trying these two myself..one is 52 one is 68 gsm...so heavier weight in the Hippo...though I HATE the pink on the inside... and the pink elastic..thinking of gesso...white acrylic paint and cutting off the pink elastic
I LOVE this video. Thanks so much for sharing!
Very insightful
Your dog inspires me!
Thank you Denali, seriously, thank you
Love the sleepy hound! I have a German Shepard and a poodle. Love my fur babies!
Marcell Hobbs haha he was so out! Enjoy your furbabies. :)