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Oliver Burkeman makes a compelling case for morning pages

PROMPTS newsletter – we sent two in 2021

5-Minute Morning Yoga

"If you don't have time to meditate…" 

How To Do Nothing

Adam and Ted discussed How To Do Nothing days before COVID shut down the world

In our neverending exploration of life through the notebook, we delve into Joan Didion’s “On Keeping a Notebook” and explore how we use a notebook, why, and what it means to us. 

New Yorker: 1995 article on the Bloomsbury Group

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion

On Becoming Lucy Sante by Lucy Sante

Blog Post: How to Keep a Notebook 

Slate Political Gabfest

Image: John Locke’s Method for Commonplace Notebooks, The Public Domain Review

City Cast Houston

The Orange Show Houston

Phillip Pyle II

George Saunders Story Club

Kerouac On The Road Scroll

Second City Corporate Education

NYT Daily: Russia and the U.S. Face Off Over Ukraine

Freewrite

Field Notes Heavy Duty

Field Notes Heavy Duty x Magnetic Tape Hack

Field Notes Trailhead

Field Notes Harvest

Ryan Slie joins the podcast once again to discuss Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire in depth, to check in on our stationery-related hauls after the holidays, and to discuss Adam’s very large planner.

The National WWII Museum

Maker’s Cabinet ferrule

Sports Stories ballcap

Ebbets Field Flannels Musgrave cap

Paris Review 238

Crispin Finn Planner

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Brian Boyd

NYTimes review, 1962

The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov by Andrea Pitzer

“Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city…”

Ted and Adam resist the urge to switch over to a ghosts/murders podcast by digging in on the stationery we’re using, debate the use of voice-typing in a group setting, and try and pay some attention to all of the things we subscribe to. And of course whaddya gots.

Jamelle Bouie’s cereal reviews

Who’s the Most Lovable Pooches?

Field Notes All Trails

Field Notes Harvest edition

Tombow Mono Graph Lite ballpoint pen

Narwhal fountain pen

Tokyo Inklings podcast

Subscriptions we came up with between the two of us

Print

- NY Times

- NY Review of Books

- The Economist

- Monocle

- National Geographic

- Texas Monthly

- N+1

- The Week (for kids)

- Rosetowne, fancy postcards

Streaming

- The Internet

- HBO Max

- Apple TV

- Hulu/ESPN/Disney Plus

- Netflix

- Amazon Prime

Digital

- MaxFun

- Erasable Patreon

- Effectively Wild baseball podcast

- Fangraphs.com

- Kottke.org

Email newsletters

- George Saunders Story Club newsletter

- Starship Casual by Jeff Tweedy

- Lettre Recommandée by Lauren Collins

- Sports Stories by Eric Nusbaum and Adam Villacin (I said they’ve only done this for a year, I was way off)

- Take Note Prompts newsletter

Many more…

Wombo Art app

"I don't like Mondays"

I'm a Writer But… podcast

Paramedic and author Ted Flanagan

Ted Flanagan's index cards

Pale Fire

Pilot Precise V5

Brad Dowdy's Dotdash Index Cards

Analog Index Card System

Adam and Ted reckon with the reality of NaNoWrimo, we talk planners and the lack thereof, Adam is in danger of breaking an impressive streak of Field Notes releases, and he has a transcendent experience watching Get Back about the Beatles.

Field Notes Harvest edition

Port Aransas, Texas

San Jose Island (Ted called it San Juan by accident)

Field Notes Ignition edition

Word. Standard Memoradum 2022 by Jon Contino

Baron Fig deskpad

Blackwing’s latest lab

No More Jockeys on YouTube

Uhh Yeah Dude

Uniball Signo UM-153

Pentel Energel Euro

Get Back, Beatles documentary

Song Exploder

Tombow Mono Graph .38

We check in our our respective #NanoWrimo progress, make some bold motivational offers, find good (and old) character names, and explore strategies to keep going and write gooder.

Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing, the Guardian

Elena Ferrante

Larry McMurtry

Field Notes Trailhead edition

Field Notes Harvest edition

Smoke Hole Sessions with Martin Shaw

Saint George’s Day

The Other Paris by Luc Sante

Erasable Podcast

How to Win Nano Podcast

Wine and Crime Podcast

Pentel Energel Euro

Pen Addict 485

15 NaNoWriMo Strategies for Desperate Moments