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Writers have this…I guess you might want to call it a ‘reputation’ for not always being the most sociable type of people. At least, that was the old school stereotype. If you go by your standard stereotype of the modern writer, traditional or indie, you run into people that are constantly posting, constantly interacting, etc.Continue reading “On Writing Groups”

I recently got to a milestone I had been trying to get to for months and I decided to treat MAHSELF to a new pen — the TWSBI Swipe. I do like TWSBIs. I have one of their Gos and three of their Ecos. I had one more but there was a big oopsie andContinue reading “Fountain Pen Friday #5 -TWSBI Swipe”

Close to three years ago, I found myself dragged to Star Wars Celebration: Chicago with some of my friends. It was a really fun experience because the extent of my Star Wars knowledge was at that point: Seen the movies (the prequels in the theater) Played the Playstation 2 Battlefront Games So I wasn’t gettingContinue reading “Imposter Syndrome”

Every writer has a process, and one of the fascinating things about the process is that every one does it differently. Octavia Butler, prior to making it big, would get up at 2 a.m. and write for 2 hours before she went off to work. Patrick Rothfuss of In the name of the wind fameContinue reading “The process”

For this Friday’s Fountain Pen Friday we’re going to talk about one of the most accessible fountain pens: The Lamy Safari (retails for $29.60 without the converter) is one of my go-to pens. I have a lot of those, but I do have a soft spot in my heart for my Lamy Safaris. They’re someContinue reading “Fountain Pen Friday #4: Lamy”

I’ve decided to stop using the Tomoe River paper for ink comparisons. It’s been discontinued, as previously mentioned, Instead I’m going to start using the Exceed notebook. It’s Wal-Mart’s answer to the Leuchturm and it’s actually surprisingly decent. I’ve used a few of them for meeting notebooks at school. The only downside is there’s aContinue reading “wInksday 8: Robert Oster River of Fire”

I will have this poll up from today till next Tuesday and it will determine the inks for the next several weeks. Be sure to vote for your favorite.

If you type in traditional vs indie publishing, you’re going to get a whole lot of sites and given how prevalent indie publishing is online a whole lot of those sites will have a curious pro-indie publishing angle. Once I got the rights to my traditionally-published book back I went ahead and began selling itContinue reading “Meandering thoughts on the craft and salesmanship”

Monteverde has been one of the inks that have been sneaking into my regular usage because 1) it’s one of the most affordable ink bottles I have and 2) it flows really well on most of the pens I’ve inked it with (the other one I have is the Monteverde Sapphire) I was on theContinue reading “wInksday #6 Monteverde Ruby”