# Switching to writing everything by hand has not so much been a revelation (what I do and how I do it haven't really changed... yet) but it has certainly been invigorating.
It was definitely started by having the Field Notes book and a pen with me at all times bit there is now a desire to write, a longing to fill the pages and keep doing so every day.
I have filled the first notebook so ordered a pack of three Moleskines of the same size - they were a third of the price of a new pack of Field Notes - but it is not necessarily what I write in but that I actually do so. Combined with the daily log it is becoming addictive.
There is something unexpectedly liberating about putting pen to paper in this manner, something I've not felt in a long time. It was previously a struggle to choose such an option over typing on the phone but I realise that was because I had the wrong tools. I was simply trying to force the issue rather than let it happen naturally.
Until now, just about everything I have written has been, or is likely to be, posted to the blog. Whether this continues I don't know; perhaps the daily log will be the refuge for purely offline jottings.
It's still early days on this particular journey but it is a path that I am intent on pursuing.
@colinwalker I started doing a lot more writing by hand about 4 years ago, and now I get twitchy when I don't have a pen-and-paper option, at least.
@colinwalker I destroyed my handwriting while taking notes in higher ed., looking back, I certainly didn’t have the right study technique. Since, I have hardly written a whole page by hand. I’d like to re-learn cursive, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. @kimberlyhirsh
@odd Letter-writing and bullet journaling were the two things that got me back into it.
@kimberlyhirsh @odd My handwriting still leaves a lot to be desired bit I'm working on it.