A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2010: Your Year in Writing
“I am ticking off the days until I can get my Working Writer’s Daily Planner. All work is at a complete stop until its arrival.”—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club Are you a writer? Is someone you know a writer? Then you’re familiar with how challenging it is to keep up with all the daily tasks (besides making tea, playing solitaire, doing dishes, checking e-mail, making more tea, and—oh yeah, writing!) that complicate a writer’s life: keeping track o [Read More...]
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This writer’s daily calendar is a good-looking package and doesn’t take up much room on my already too crowded desk. It also has a handy layout with full work weeks presented on the spiral-bound pages. BUT…
If this is supposed to be for writers, it should not have been constructed with shiny, high-gloss pages, which, although handsome, are frightful to write on. And it’s made for writers?
I do most of my jotting and note-taking in pencil, using a premium Palomino `HB’ which writes beautifully–but not on resin-coated paper. And ballpoint is no better. For these pages, you should properly use an RC pen, such as a Sharpie, and I find that to be inconvenient.
Giving this calendar one star would have been over-kill, since it does contain everything else I’m looking for: it’s compact, thoroughly stocked with information, conveniently laid out, and even portable, having not much more girth than a standard briefcase-type secretary.
But if a writer can’t write quickly and conveniently when needed, whether making a notation or penciling in an appointment…well, you get the idea.
I will not buy one for 2011 if, like the 2010 model, it’s printed on (as noted on the inside cover) 100# Boydon Gloss.