I splurged and bought myself a leather-bound journal to use as my commonplace book. It has a bottle-green cover with a tasteful Celtic knot design embossed on it, and 240 lined pages, which should be enough to get me started. ;-) In the past, when I’ve been given fancy journals like this, I’ve never had the nerve to write in them because they seemed so precious, and as though every word committed to their pages should be perfectly chosen and true for all time. But I’ve decided it was time to get over this kind of writer’s block.
I’m putting two-and-two together and pairing this goal with another of my goals, to do the A-Z Author challenge. My A author is Paul Auster, and the book is The Brooklyn Follies.
I steeled myself and wrote my first entry in my journal:
p. 31 – ”’Without the drudgery, no bliss.’”
This line is spoken by a character who’s explaining why he enjoys his job, a job which others see as routine and boring, and a waste of his talent.
_glas_ cheered this 2 years ago
