Tag: notebooks

Do you ever get the problem that you don’t have enough spoons to write in your Book of Shadows? Cause I get this problem quite often (writing uses so many spoons for me) and if so do you have any advice or tips that tou think could help? (Ps. Love your blog! ❤)

spooniewitches:

Bonjour!

Yes I totally have this problem. Also when I’m in a low mood, I’m totally apathetic so that’s an issue too. It’s deffo still something I’m working on, but here’s some tips:

Only work on your journal when you want to (don’t feel like you have to or should do because you’re a witch. If it takes you longer to work on your journal that’s fine! If you try to work on it when you’re not in the mood for it, you’ll just frustrate yourself and that’s not the point, it’s meant to be fun.)

Make notes in a scrap or rough notebook, where you can use shorthand and have messy handwriting. Then you can transfer notes over to your journal on high spoons days. You can also make notes on your phone or laptop if you find hand writing uses up spoons. Similarly, you can make voice notes. This way you can work on an entry a little bit at a time, rater than all at once.

Make a to do or could do list for things you want to include in your journal, so for high spoons days you can pick and choose which things you want to write down.

Buy a kids handwriting pen or triangular shaped pen because they’re easier to write with.

Print out and stick in things rather than copying things out or drawing yourself – as long as you remember to properly credit authors and artists.

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Grimoire Tip

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Let it be messy.

Look, I’ve loved notebooks since I learned how to write. I hoard empty journals and filled ones, I’ve kept diaries since I was six, I’ve used various types of bullet journals since before the term was invented; I’ve done it all.

And if there’s one thing I’ve learned about keeping the joy in journaling, it’s this:

LET. IT. BE. MESSY. 

I mean, let’s be honest, how many of us have held onto a gorgeous notebook that we’ve been dying to use for way too long, never writing in it because we were terrified of not being able to fill it or live up to the aesthetic we dreamed up?

I know I have.

Nothing will kill your journaling experience faster than that kind of pressure. Besides, aiming for that kind of rigid consistency with a grimoire just seems bizarre to me, because your grimoire reflects your journey. So of course it will change as you do!

Variety is beautiful, so let your book be wild. Let one day be a freewriting journal entry, and the next be a Pinterest worthy spread with watercolour and washi tape. Write ten pages one day and ten words the next. Use different pens, switch colour schemes, switch between cursive and print. Draw cartoons, write notes in the margins, paste things in!

It becomes so much easier to record things regularly when you don’t have the pressure to live up to a certain standard or commit to a certain format each time. 

It gives you permission to have different moods and styles. It gives you permission to evolve.

Don’t tie yourself to the ideas you had when you started. They’re good ideas, but they’re not the only ones.

Happy journaling!