Great Holiday Gifts for Writers

The Write Blog enumerates some items bound to make writers a bunch of happy folks this season.

If you’ve known a writer, you know they can be picky (some might even say pretentious). But it’s really not that hard buying gifts for the writers in your life – especially not with TWFH on your side. Here [...]

Eric and His Moleskine Mission

Eric of Muffin Puddles goes on a Moleskine mission and realizes that being indecisive can be a positive attribute after all. Where’s the connection, you ask? Here’s an excerpt of his blog entry on being indecisive:
A few days ago I realized that I needed a better journal/notebook to write in. Upon this fact I remembered [...]

Ming’s Moleskine Love Falters

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After discovering the Moleskine in 2005, creative freelancer Ming and notebook became real pals. His dedication was so much so that he “forced hundreds of people to buy moleskines of their own.”
He describes how “it had become part of my identity, and psyche. It was more than a notebook, it was [...]

Ruben Fletcher’s Moleskine Spread

Moleskine Spread by Ruben Fletcher
Ruben Fletcher has been “Starbucks drawing” on moleskine for years. But he thinks he has wasted an awful lot of time doing so because feels he should have spent it  on something more worthwhile. But what that worthwhile pursuit is, he has yet to discover as he plods on.

In my years [...]

Slightly Mordant’s Mik Unearths Old Scribblings on His Moleskine

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Mik of Slightly Mordant discovers an old moleskine containing an unfinished story about The Village and a resident “internationally renowned photographer” with a funny name (III1/4? )
Here’s an excerpt:
Arthur R <name> III¼ was an Internationally Renowned photographer; the fact that he rarely traveled outside of the village made the [...]

Xteena’s Ode to a Moleskine

Moleskiners have various reasons for buying a moleskine. Some were merely curious, while others admitted it was the publicity that got them opening their wallets in exchange for the notebook.
But Xteena bought her moleskine because “it’s sleek and smells good.” Though she likes moleskines, she dislikes the “sticker” that says “the notebook Hemingway wrote in!” [...]

Beauty Kit in a Moleskine

Carry-on Makeup Box by judysmile
Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, along comes another unique moleskine concept. Did it ever occur to you that a moleskine can have something to do with makeup? I didn’t think so.
Judysmile in Taipei, Taiwan has transformed her legendary journal into a makeup box. Is that original or what? [...]

Butch Dalisay Retires His First Moleskine and Gets Nostalgic

Butch Dalisay, aka Penman of the national daily Philippine Star, tells us how it took him three years to fill up his first moleskine notebook. A confessed gadget freak, Butch didn’t immediately find the moleskine appealing. Guess what got him? The notebook’s “snob appeal,” without really expecting much in the way of substance. Here’s how [...]

Tac Anderson’s Moleskine Helps Him Gets Things Done

Some people are stumped when confronted with a blank sheet of paper staring up at them and begging to be filled. But serial entrepreneur Tac Anderson isn’t one of them. Instead of getting eaten by confusion and panic, he finds his muse where others find an abyss.
For a high-tech guy, Tac still prefers the low-tech [...]