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I don\u2019t use a journal, just a small piece of clipboard material on which I place quartered (torn)\u00a0sections of 8.5 x 11″ paper that I have folded in half. I generally keep several such fresh\u00a0sheets with me, as well as others containing things I am working on\u2014plans, schedules, tasks. Above, you see the board: I put a ridiculous drawing (by Bruegel)\u00a0on one side. You also see a piece of paper, folded, as it would sit in my pocket. Then you see one such\u00a0in-use, unfolded sheet:\u00a0my accounting. This sheet tabulates\u00a0various habits\u2014you may guess what they are\u2014that I am TO PERFORM\u00a0or TO AVOID each day.\u00a0This is a middling eleven days; I could have done better.<\/p>\n

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Jesse Ball is the author of sixteen books and is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a winner of <\/em>The Paris Review\u2019s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and his novel<\/em>\u00a0A Cure for Suicide\u00a0was<\/em>\u00a0long-listed for the National Book Award. His latest book,\u00a0<\/em>Autoportrait, comes out from Catapult this August.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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