Ric has an empty book too beautiful to use. So do I. For me, half the time it stays empty. A quarter of the time I'll start, dislike what I've done, and abandon it. The other quarter, I actually fill them.
My quick hits --
1. Leave it empty, something to aspire to.
2. Descarify it. Like, buy another book more beautiful than this. Or a second identical one to use for practice, test out pens on, etc.
3. Iterate. Just keep coming back to the same page with different color pens, cut-out pictures, crayons... it'll add up and get cool.
4. Start on the computer, then cut and paste. Write or draw on it after it's in.
5. Just write. 100 pages of anybody's handwriting is incredibly compelling. It's like they've made a spell of power.
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Yes, I have lots of those empty notebooks, too nice to write in!
I have a beautiful oriental blue silk covered note book that I used to track my pregnancy some 17 years ago (omg is it really that long?) Ironically I had a boy. I came into the posession of another beautiful note book around the same time. Ribbon tied, shades of pink and grey, female faces - so hard to describe. I hung on to it hopeing to duplicate another pregancy diary. Sadly that did not manifest itself, but I still can't bring myself to use that notebook. At the risk of sounding over dramatic, it will remain blank as a tribute to the subsequent children that I unable to conceive.
That's perfect.
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