Virginia Woolf, from "Cinema" in The Selected Essays of Virginia Woolf
Started commonplacing and the first thing that came back is my writer's bump!
[7/100] days of productivity
worked on my May wrap-up article for my Substack, that will be out tomorrow, read A LOT (I'm currently juggling 4 books), and rearranged my bookshelf.
love downloading a pdf to never read. just in case. like lol. you’re coming home with me
[14/100] days of productivity
I'm making progress with my process of copying my most valuable screenshots in my commonplace journal. Anything like quotes, interesting facts, useful websites, articles and so on.
I've started transcribing things from Sept. 2023 a couple of days ago, and now I just finished the ones from Oct. 2024!
This is such a therapeutic activity. I love it.
"The scars of the past shape us, but they need not define us; we have the power to write our own stories."
She lay quite still, in a sort of sleep, in a sort of dream.
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Simone de Beauvoir, from "The Woman Destroyed," originally published in 1967
[6/100] days of productivity
I finished reading Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Laurence and started adding my favourite quotes on @literarymood
made notes about a couple of interesting articles (I'll share them soon)
the weather was miserable, but I went to the bookstore just to browse and walk a bit
ate pasta with chickpeas...it was delicious!
January, 1933 The diary of Anaïs Nin [Volume One: 1931-1934]
April 20th, 1935 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)