Editing The Pen Addict 206/transcript (section)

== Journaling ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I gave up on the idea that I would do those, that journaling or routine writing things a long time ago. Cause it's just not the way that I've ever been. Like even with like digital journals and stuff, like with day one, which we've spoken about in the past, like even just like something that will remind me every day to do it with a notification still doesn't make me do it. I, I, I tend to add to those types of things when I want to, as opposed to on a routine, it just doesn't fit in my brain.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right. So now this one, this one came in, I think it was, it was more directed, um, at me, but I really just because of what Tesla said just a second ago about the pocket notebooks, do you have any favorite pocket notebooks? I know you say you go through a lot of them. Has there been one that's like really stood out or that you, you know, when you're not rotate, if you don't have one to rotate into, do you just grab one that you, you know, it's going to be good.

'''Tessa Sowry:''' I mean, field notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Tessa Sowry:''' I know it's obvious, but that is what I would always go to.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They got a great new design on the website. I didn't feel like it was worth putting in a followup, but I, they put that out there a couple of days ago. It looks fantastic and it's really, really great on mobile as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That's very cool. Have you seen it, Brad? I did. I just saw that the other day, someone linked it and, uh, I didn't realize that was coming. So, uh, they did a good job. We'll, we'll talk about that. Um, when I, when I get them on, I guess I should email them about having them on for their summer release. Shouldn't I?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'll add that to the list, but, uh, yeah, I mean, it's, it's kind of hard to go wrong with the field notes, you know, obviously, um, you know, they're not fountain pen friendly, but you're not, um, always using fountain pens, uh, as neither am I. So I love breaking out the field notes. All right. And Robbie Ross, I think is a countryman as well. She, he wants to know.

'''Tessa Sowry:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He wants to know who produces the best stationary blogs, USA or UK.

'''Tessa Sowry:''' Oh my goodness.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Watch yourself.

'''Tessa Sowry:''' I, I, that's impossible to answer. We've all got our merits.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You can, you can say UK. I will let you, I will let you do that because between you, Ian, Adam, who else is in the UK stationary blogging? Y'all do awesome, awesome job. So, I mean, related to that, Robbie wants to know what's the hardest thing about running your blog? Like, do you, how much, you know, time do you spend on it and, you know, how far ahead are you planning things? You know, what, uh, cause you have a day job and, um, you know, it's a lot of commitment to run this blog. You've been doing it for a while now. So what's, uh, what are your challenges?

'''Tessa Sowry:''' Um, I think consistency is, is a challenge. Um, I think especially with my photography and like talking about my first ever post, I can't believe how terrible that photo is. Um, sort of, and the standard I've kind of set for myself now, I think that makes it quite difficult. I can't just like take a quick snap and then put a post up. I've got to wait until the light is good and I've had a good idea for something and the composition's gone right and I've had time to edit. And I think that's kind of slowed me down a bit. Um, but I want to stay at that standard. So I want to carry it on. And I think that is something I think, especially working full time. And I actually recently, I used to have half a day off a week to do it. And I've recently, um, gone back to working full time just because I found that I was working full time and just not getting paid for it. Um, so I, um, now don't have that kind of time in the week. That's definitely for blogging. So it's kind of carving out time for myself, um, is a bit of a struggle, but yeah, but I

'''Brad Dowdy:''' make it work. Yeah. The quality shows, I mean, it's, it's, it's very obvious that, uh, you, you put a lot of time and effort into it and, uh, do a great job. All right. So I'm going to get you out on this one last question again from Mr. Robbie Ross. Do you have a, do you have a grail pen that you're one pen that you're looking for that, you know, is either just something really awesome, something, you know, you just really want to own something you can't wait to use, or maybe not. Is there, is there something like that out there for you?