Writing Book 8 · Lesson 1

This year's page

Heading, margin and three-level notes are automatic; today only confirms it.

What it is

The heading and the margin are the same as last year, so this page is a check rather than a lesson — but there is one change: what you are expected to keep in the margin grows each year, and the standard for neatness is now whatever you managed at the END of last year, not the start.

Watch it built

1
Set up exactly as you did last year.
heading · margin · skipped lines
2
Look at your best page from last year, not your first.
the standard
3
Match it on the first page of this year.
starting where you finished
Remember
Start this year at the standard you finished last year with.
Ask yourself: “Did any part of setting up cost me thought?”

Remember

Six years of this page. Ten minutes to confirm it and move on.

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