The Writer: Gifts for Writers

Gifts for writers, meaning anyone who still puts thoughts on paper by hand. The morning journal, the letter that gets mailed, the novel in longhand on weekends, the list that becomes a plan. A brass roll notepad feeds a fresh line as fast as the next thought arrives. A desktop hourglass measures out twenty minutes in sand, enough for a page. The Mark One pen has the weight to make a sentence feel like a decision.

For the pages, Postalco notebooks from Tokyo in six colors, a 365 daily journal with one blank page for every day, and the Watermark notebook by iA, a keepsake journal in its own box, for the year worth keeping. For the letter that gets mailed, notecards edged in gold. Pencils from Japan, Portugal and Britain fill the drawer.