{"id":467,"date":"2011-01-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2011-01-01T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T16:29:44","slug":"overthinking-the-journal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/02\/overthinking-the-journal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Overthinking the journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"2011<\/a>
Starting my 2011 journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday I started a new journal for the new year. For many people, that means popping down to Borders for a $10 ready-made journal with ruled lines, and interesting cover, and a useful magnetic closure. (I love those magnetic closures.)<\/p>\n

Evidently that would be too easy for me.<\/p>\n

Instead I built my own, basing the page proportion on the golden ratio<\/a> (1:0.6180339887), and the page layout on Rosarivo’s “divine proportion” and the\u00a0van de Graaf canon<\/a> of page construction, in turn based on medieval manuscript page design.<\/p>\n

I’m using a pad of short-grain sketch paper, and\u00a0\u00a0I’ll bind it at the end of the year. Assuming I’m still writing in it by then. But of course <\/em>I will be, right? It’s my new year’s resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I started a new journal for the new year. For many people, that means popping down to Borders for a $10 ready-made journal with ruled lines, and interesting cover, and a useful magnetic closure. (I love those magnetic closures.) Evidently that would be too easy for me. Instead I built my own, basing the … <\/p>\n

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