Vacansopapurosophobia

[andygates]

I hate starting blank notebooks and sketchbooks.  Hate it!  I've got two now, looking at me with their beady metaphorical eyes: a fancypants Moleskine indulgence that I took to Tignes and back without even taking the shrink-wrap off, and a tough little sketchbook that I picked up at the weekend to doodle in prior to 24HCD.

I think it's just that the front page needs to be nice, or worthy, or pretty - and I draw a blank.  Ha!  Performance anxiety perfectly internalised.  If you find my ancient corpse surrounded by hundreds of new blank notebooks and sketchpads, you'll know that I never got over it.

Comments

[ladyjulian.livejournal.com]

Amongst notebook fetishists, yes. If the notebook is a mere tool for recording things, it's not important. But if your notebook is a little window into your personality, a memorandum of your print upon the planet, {insert poncy notebook metaphor of your choice here}, then yes.