{"product_id":"the-unbegun-rossetti-journal","title":"The Unbegun — Rossetti Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eA journal for the projects you haven't started — built on the assumption that the unbegun is still sadder than the unfinished, and that writing is how you change that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristina Rossetti, Time Flies (1885)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes: work never begun.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRossetti was 55 when she wrote this — old enough to know what unfinished cost, and old enough to know what never beginning cost more. A journal with this on the cover is a dare. It sits on your desk. It waits. It has already asked the question. The only thing left is your answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis isn't a notebook. It's an argument for beginning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpened a blank page and closed it again without writing a word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaved a draft you never came back to\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnown exactly what you wanted to make and still not made it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the journal that calls that out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting isn't just recording — it's thinking with your hands. The ideas that stay in your head stay unfinished. The ones you put down at least have a chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe question and the answer sit on a black hardcover — the quote doing all the work, nothing to soften it. It asks before you open it. The answer is your first page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-unbegun-tee\"\u003eThe Unbegun Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-unbegun-mug\"\u003eThe Unbegun Mug\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n5.5″ × 8.5″ hardcover — 120 lined pages, acid-free paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElastic band closure, ribbon bookmark, lay-flat binding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person with more ideas than pages. The writer who keeps meaning to start. The one who already knows what Rossetti meant and has been thinking about it ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpen it. Write the first line. That's all she's asking.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eChristina Rossetti, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1830–1894, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished six collections and multiple prose works during her lifetime — an unusually productive output for a Victorian woman writer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept notebooks of drafts and revised for years before releasing work — known for discipline as much as feeling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTime Flies\u003c\/em\u003e was written in her 50s, while she was ill; the productivity never stopped\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer work fell out of fashion after her death and was revived significantly in the mid-20th century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644787822686,"sku":"4208717_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Unbegun_Journal_Christina_Rossetti.png?v=1776201432","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-unbegun-rossetti-journal","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}