In honor of my recent purchase of these very pretty wooden knitting needles I decided to do a post about wooden fountain pens. Why wood? It expands and contracts, and you have to be careful with it. However, because wood is varied, and many places where you buy wooden fountain pens make them by hand, […]
I needed to disengage for a day, so I missed pen porn Friday. Am giving you pens today though! These are all from Grayson Tighe. Most of his pens are one-of-a-kind. He has a lot of fantasy pens, a lot of dragons, mythological creatures and naked women. Here are three of his pens that caught
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Last night I finished working on chapter seven. I was very pleased with myself. In addition to editing and rewriting for content, flow, and making things not broken, I felt as though I’d gotten closer to the work and was editing for Voice, that I was finally writing in that character’s voice again. I have
At one point, I remember, I used to really like rewriting. I enjoyed that wordsmithing act, finding just exactly the right word, the right phrase or metaphor or simile, and polishing the text. I lost some of that, quite frankly, it’s been missing for a couple of years now. The important thing though is that
When I’m busy, I get more things done. Wait — let me explain. When I have all the time in the world, I find that I’m pretty lazy, and that I spend a lot of my time sitting on the couch, knitting or doing handwork. When I’m busy, that is, when I have a lot
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I didn’t write a lot this weekend — too busy being social. But I have been slogging away, a little bit at a time, since the start of the year. I just got to the end of chapter five. And I realized that I have four characters interacting in a certain way because I’d defined
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Continuing our series of posts This one possibly should have been the first post, but I don’t always do things in order. The lovely pen in this icon is what I call my Katana pen. It’s shaped like a curved Japanese blade when it’s closed. It’s the first of the Waterman Serenite series. Mine is
The last time I was in San Francisco for the day job, we went to Kitchen on Fire for a team building experience. Basically, these two chefs help your group cook something delicious. We had a great time and about a dozen bottles of wine between 20 of us didn’t hurt. One of the recipes
Subtitled: Pens I would own if money were no object. As ya’ll may or may not know, I write everything out by hand, first, before I type it up. I own five fountain pens that I cycle between. When I’m doing a lot of writing I tend to keep three filled. Right now, I’m not
Not really doing the year in review thing — that tends to be a very personal thing for me. This year wasn’t the best on record, though, and I’m sincerely hoping that 2009 is better.