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This is where it begins. In the first episode of Think on Paper, Andrew and Tanya sit down for the conversation that started the whole project: a frustration with commercial journals that skate over the surface, and the question of what a journal could be if it asked you something real.
Andrew explains why he stopped buying off-the-shelf gratitude-and-affirmation journals and started writing his own questions instead — roughly eighty of them, grouped into eight areas of life, the kind of questions no one had ever actually asked him. Tanya describes what happened when she first read them: not a quiz, but more like thinking out loud on paper.
From there, the conversation opens out into why an unexamined inner life is worth examining, where journaling sits alongside professional support, why a pen on paper does something a keyboard doesn’t, and how ink, handwriting, and even the nib itself shape the way you think. It’s a candid, unhurried first episode about getting back to thinking on paper.
Content note: This episode includes a candid, brief discussion of childhood trauma and mental health, alongside the point that journaling complements — and does not replace — professional support.
Think on Paper is part of something larger — a growing circle of people getting back to writing by hand. Come think on paper with us:
About the show
Think on Paper is a podcast about journaling from The Writing Practice, hosted by Tanya & Andrew — two co-founders talking about journaling, writing by hand, fountain pens, paper, and everything in that world. It runs alongside The Writing Practice, a series of guided journals built around a simple idea: think on paper. Less skating over the surface, more sitting with the questions that matter.
New episodes every two weeks.
