The ultimate color-coded writing ritual 🎨
Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read
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Dear Reader,
We all have weird writing quirks. Mine usually involves playing a single song on repeat for three hours straight to lock into a scene. But 19th-century French author Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo) took writing rituals to an entirely new level.
Dumas wrote every single line of his works using a strict color-coded paper system:
- Blue paper was strictly reserved for his novels. If he ran out of blue sheets while traveling, he would stop writing fiction entirely until he found more.
- Pink paper was used exclusively for his journalistic articles and essays.
- Yellow paper was saved for his poetry.
His system was so iconic that readers and publishers could tell what genre he was producing just by looking at his desk stack!
Do you use colored pens, notebooks, or digital tags to organize your thoughts, or are you a white-page purist? Reply and tell me about your writing setup!
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