Empowering Individuality

Articles to inspire yourself-expression.

It's easy to get in a creative rut. Relying on what's worked for you in the past is a smart choice, but not necessarily a challenging or exciting one. If you need to take your artistic output to the...
We're well on our way to the end of November and if you're still on track to complete 1667 words a day,  give yourself a pat on the back! Completing the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge can be...
It’s no secret that a creative activity can have a positive impact on our day, help reduce anxiety, lead to feelings of accomplishment or at the very least just offer a distraction and some joy. It can be hard...
In the last couple of months, we have been witnessing history as this unprecedented global situation unravels. Many of us are turning to our journals for comfort or a simple distraction. While we strive to find a creative outlet...
A journal is a great place to capture daily thoughts and observations, set goals or plan ahead, but it can also be a helpful tool to untangle deep emotions and feelings, and to validate and help us make sense...
If you are a regular visitor to this blog, you may have noticed that our Endpaper Blog Newsletter has been on hiatus for the past few months. We were working hard behind the scenes to get our new website...
No, this isn't a challenge to craft a tale with a multitude of characters with unique personalities. It's the even bigger challenge of telling a fully realised story using only 140 characters (as in letters, punctuation and spaces combined). Truly...
Stories have the power to take you anywhere. Whether you're getting lost in a good book, or writing down the tale of your own life, stories can transport you to wildly different places and times, expanding your insight and...
Our Peek Inside… series takes a look inside people's personal journals to celebrate their imagination and inspire others. This month we get an insider's scoop into the many Paperblanks sketchbooks and journals of art history student Lynora: My name is Lynora,...
Whether you're an avid journaller or are just beginning your practice, sometimes a little motivation is needed to ensure you keep to the habit. So, to help you get started we've put together three reasons daily writing should be...